forget
to stop in the gift shop; Wed-Sat 10a-5p and between Memorial Day and
Labor Day Sun 2p-5p; admission $5 adults, $4 for 13-17, $3.50 for 60+,
$2.50 for children 12 and under; 2505 St Louis Ave near Jefferson;
314-241-7057The remainder of the collection features murals, artifacts, historic documents, memorabilia as well as wax figures in authentic historical dress of African Americans with Missouri ties. Among the famous figures portrayed are William Wells Brown, a former slave and anti-slavery spokesman, George Washington Carver, a former slave who became an inventor, botanist and educator, Elijah P. Lovejoy, a white abolitionist newspaper editor of St. Louis who was killed defending the right to publish anti-slavery viewpoints, the Reverend John Berry Meacham, a former slave who educated other former slaves on a boat on the Mississippi River to circumvent Missouri laws of the 1840s that prohibited teaching blacks, and Dred and Harriet Scott, slaves who argued for their freedom in a famous case at St Louis' Old Courthouse.
America's
Seniors at www.TodaysSeniorsNetwork.com
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