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Delaware History Museum and Mitchell Center for African American Heritage, Wilmington, DE

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Delaware History Museum and Mitchell Center for African American Heritage

A Wilmington museum whose Mitchell Center covers Delaware's African American history from the 1600s to today.

504 N Market Street, Wilmington, Delaware 19801 · Wilmington, DE

About Delaware History Museum and Mitchell Center for African American Heritage

The Mitchell Center for African American Heritage sits inside the Delaware History Museum building in Wilmington. Its exhibits draw on artifacts, oral history interviews, music, and art to trace African American life in Delaware from 1639 to the present. The center's permanent exhibition, Journey to Freedom, centers the long struggle for freedom and dignity. The center is named for Jane and Littleton Mitchell, who worked for equal rights as civil rights activists. Littleton led the Delaware NAACP chapter for thirty years and was a Tuskegee Airman. Jane was one of Delaware's first African American nurses and is in the Delaware Women's Hall of Fame. Guided group tours are available by arrangement.

  • #African American history
  • #Delaware history
  • #civil rights
  • #oral history
  • #Wilmington

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