Tour the African American Museum of Washington DC

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  • čas přidán 2. 08. 2024
  • Welcome to the tour of Washington DC by visiting the Smithsonian Institution and the African American Museum.
    The best way to dive into Black History Month is to understand Black History at the African American Museum. This museum in the national mall takes us through the history of slavery, civil rights, and the reconstruction of America, highlighting some of the greatest achievements in the African American Community.
    Join me as we make our next stop in the Washington DC Trip
    ( • Experience Capitol Hil... ) and visit one of the many Smithsonian Institution, the African American Museum.
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    [Time Stamp]
    0:00 - Introduction to the Tour
    0:38 - Welcome to the African American Museum
    1:03 - Black History Month
    2:44 - Fight for Equality
    6:08 - Civil Rights Movement
    8:49 - What We've Learned from the Tour
    9:18 - The Service of African Americans
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    Further Reading:
    National Museum of African American History & Culture: nmaahc.si.edu/
    U.S. Slavery: www.history.com/topics/black-...
    Civil Rights: www.britannica.com/topic/civi...
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    ***Disclosures: The views and opinions discussed in this video are of my own. This video has no sponsorship or affiliation with any of the aforementioned links, people, places, or things. All footage, edits, and dialogue created by myself. Thank you

Komentáře • 91

  • @exploreaswego
    @exploreaswego Před 2 lety +25

    We honestly love your amazing story telling. Love that you put this together and shared all the history. We have still never been to DC and checked out any of the places, but we would love to see this museum. Great job putting all this together

    • @dennis3643
      @dennis3643 Před rokem

      What History????
      Open your eyes,GOD IS OUR HISTORY.
      FAKE HAIR
      DRUGS
      MISEDUCATION
      GANG VIOLENCE
      RAP MUSIC
      ABORTIONS
      CANNIBALISM
      "OUR HISTORY"???????
      DRUGS
      GOOD TIMES
      SANFORD AND SON
      ROOTS
      THE COLOR PURPLE...
      WHAT HISTORY?????

  • @ryanweaver962
    @ryanweaver962 Před 6 dny

    So many lessons and learnings over time and space.

  • @TypoKnig
    @TypoKnig Před rokem +10

    Thank you for this! I recently visited the African-American History Museum for the first time. It’s a beautiful tribute to people crucial to American history. A long overdue addition to the museums on the Mall. I was able to get same-day tickets on a weekday afternoon. The first couple of years the museum was open the tickets were all used up months in advance, even on a Tuesday. Tickets have always been free.

    • @JoseOnTour
      @JoseOnTour  Před rokem +2

      When I visited to the museum I had a 2-3 hour wait. It was well worth it and I agree that its a nice addition to the Mall. So much fascinating history that doesn't always surface.

  • @cvds9986
    @cvds9986 Před 2 lety +11

    Just found you. Thank you for this. Great music too and love the name of it, the tour! We spent four hours on the lower levels and didn’t make it above the lobby. It was such a beautiful building as well. We will definitely visit again, so much to learn🌳

  • @chris4up
    @chris4up Před 5 měsíci +4

    I want to take my family here and thanks for putting this together. 🙏🏿

    • @JoseOnTour
      @JoseOnTour  Před 5 měsíci

      Thank you. There is a lot of great history in the museum and many other exhibits I didn't include. Your family will really enjoy it

  • @sophiayelverton1553
    @sophiayelverton1553 Před 23 dny

    I agree with a wonderful virtual tour. It's an excellent job. I am going there this weekend. Thank you for my pre tour 😊

  • @adrianna530
    @adrianna530 Před 2 lety +12

    One of the best virtual tours available! Thank you so much for sharing this.

    • @JoseOnTour
      @JoseOnTour  Před 2 lety

      Thank you Adrianna for the great feedback

  • @andariegos9466
    @andariegos9466 Před rokem +9

    You are doing such an amazing job with each video. Truly appreciate your work. 🙌🏾

  • @syckindahead
    @syckindahead Před 2 lety +4

    I heard start at the bottom level and move upward. Bisa Butler (artist of the quilt at 1:45) also has a piece at the Renwick until spring 2023🙌🏾Thanks for the tour

  • @FrenchieMom05
    @FrenchieMom05 Před rokem +7

    Great video! You really captured the spirit of this incredibly interesting museum. The music section is one of my favorites.

  • @dwalker6868
    @dwalker6868 Před rokem +4

    Can’t wait to visit the museum. Thank you.

  • @wajutiem08
    @wajutiem08 Před rokem +2

    I will try to check it out this SUMMER 🏝️🌞

  • @HinaKhan-DorsetDrivePS
    @HinaKhan-DorsetDrivePS Před rokem +3

    watching this video in our class thanks for posting and creating!

    • @JoseOnTour
      @JoseOnTour  Před rokem

      It is an honor, thank you for sharing

  • @TrevorJacksonTV
    @TrevorJacksonTV Před rokem +5

    Great Episode

  • @feliciablack3290
    @feliciablack3290 Před rokem +3

    Love it. Thank you for doing this

  • @user-yd7cj3mt5b
    @user-yd7cj3mt5b Před 5 měsíci

    Awesome Job! Thank you for sharing your time and talent in putting this together! I have been to the Museum several times and I still haven't seen everything. I will share with my NYC Girl Scouts this week as a Black History Month activity! They will be motivated to take the trip themselves...

  • @van42567
    @van42567 Před 2 lety +8

    Thank you for such a great video! I really enjoyed your presentation of the museum… truly a must-visit in DC

  • @shawnlivers2757
    @shawnlivers2757 Před 3 měsíci

    Beautiful tour, thank you Jose!

  • @koreennixon9046
    @koreennixon9046 Před rokem +3

    Lovely museum been a few times

    • @JoseOnTour
      @JoseOnTour  Před rokem

      It really is a beautiful museum and the history is very detailed

  • @NoneFB
    @NoneFB Před rokem +2

    I was just there two months ago. There is a lot to take in. I wish I saw this video before I went up the escalator. 👏

  • @stuffonstuff2017
    @stuffonstuff2017 Před rokem +1

    came from ur reddit comment. Thanks for sharing

  • @AnnetteTaborn
    @AnnetteTaborn Před 5 měsíci +1

    Thank you to all of the rich, mostly black, and other good people who made this Museum possible.

    • @AnnetteTaborn
      @AnnetteTaborn Před 5 měsíci

      Makes me so proud of what we can do.

    • @JoseOnTour
      @JoseOnTour  Před 5 měsíci

      @@AnnetteTabornIt was long overdue and I think its in the ideal location by the Washington Monument.

  • @warrenrhinerson6373
    @warrenrhinerson6373 Před 2 lety +5

    Honestly this is one of the few Smithsonian museums on the national mall I’ve not had the pleasure of visiting. I would like to on my next visit

  • @lxlPhishlxl
    @lxlPhishlxl Před 2 lety +4

    Nice job 👍🏾 it’s tuff to put this out here while the country is split terribly at this time. Hopefully people learn from this.

  • @albertfox3430
    @albertfox3430 Před 5 měsíci

    Im going with my church tommorow

  • @alfredknox180
    @alfredknox180 Před 4 měsíci

    Great work. What jazz song is playing in the background

    • @wowlizzy4039
      @wowlizzy4039 Před 2 měsíci

      The song is, Slow Food Jam by Almost Here

  • @houstonmuhammad843
    @houstonmuhammad843 Před 5 měsíci

    I guess I was a bit premature in my assessment of the Harriett Tubman portrait. The close up reveals that it dosen't look a prehistoric man. It still dosen't look like Harriett, but I guess that's the best that can be done with a quilt. And it's beautiful.

  • @wgcds7jyg897
    @wgcds7jyg897 Před rokem +3

    Hi, fascinating tour. I plan to visit the museum next weekend. Is there an Emmett Till exhibit? If so, what items are in the exhibit?

    • @JoseOnTour
      @JoseOnTour  Před rokem +3

      You will have a great time. There is so much to experience. There is an Emmett Till exhibit that I choose not to cover in this video. Its actually right across the train on the lower level. Emmett's passing is something that impacted me as a kid and out of respect to the audience and the museum I choose to omit it.

    • @wgcds7jyg897
      @wgcds7jyg897 Před rokem

      @@JoseOnTour Understood. Thank you again. Looking forward to visiting the museum.

    • @theboomerbelle2723
      @theboomerbelle2723 Před 10 měsíci +1

      Perhaps you chose to omit the Emmett Till exhibit, however photos of this exhibit are prohibited by the museum.

  • @PatriciaLucious-ll2vm
    @PatriciaLucious-ll2vm Před 5 měsíci +1

    Esau's blessings r up. They had 400 yrs. Done

  • @andresmith7758
    @andresmith7758 Před 11 měsíci +2

    sound track it dope. great information shared my man

    • @JoseOnTour
      @JoseOnTour  Před 11 měsíci

      Thank you so much Andre

    • @houstonmuhammad843
      @houstonmuhammad843 Před 5 měsíci

      The word dope is not cute bro. Your use of it reflects your generations corruption.

  • @mosespowers8329
    @mosespowers8329 Před 5 měsíci +1

    eKs cel len tey!!!

  • @nicola1067
    @nicola1067 Před rokem +1

    This is always interesting to see people who self educate themselves about a few topics and video tape themselves at the Smithsonian, it took 18 months of training as a docent of the Smithsonian and to see folks with limited content knowledge of the exhibits and artifacts do a video tour that’s limited on content knowledge

  • @warrenrhinerson6373
    @warrenrhinerson6373 Před 2 lety +3

    Also a fun fact: The original drafts of the Declaration of Independence written by Thomas Jefferson actually had a condemnation of slavery in them but was removed out of fear of losing support from southern states. Jefferson was also highly anti-slavery and tried to end the practice several times. The only reason he didn’t free his slaves personally is because he legally cannot

  • @lifeisacasino6021
    @lifeisacasino6021 Před 2 lety +3

    Awesome video! i just learned there is a museum of the bible in D.C! Ever thought about checking it out?

    • @JoseOnTour
      @JoseOnTour  Před 2 lety

      There are so many Museums in DC it can take weeks to visit them all. I heard about the Bible museum when I visited the beautiful Immaculate Conception church. I’m making another trip in the next couple of weeks and would love to pay a visit.

  • @yleetv
    @yleetv Před rokem +2

    What is the music at 5:40? Thank you.

    • @JoseOnTour
      @JoseOnTour  Před rokem +1

      The Artist name is - Almost Here, Song - Slow Food Jam

    • @yleetv
      @yleetv Před rokem

      @@JoseOnTour Thank you!

  • @PatriciaLucious-ll2vm
    @PatriciaLucious-ll2vm Před 5 měsíci

    Is what's under the Vatican included ?

  • @houstonmuhammad843
    @houstonmuhammad843 Před 5 měsíci

    Why dosen't the Harriett Tubman portrait look anything like Harriett Tubman? It looks like a prehistoric man.

  • @HoneyBee-br6hi
    @HoneyBee-br6hi Před 2 lety +2

    My sister went already it was a bit painful for her. I’m contemplating? Please give some your feelings below.

    • @JoseOnTour
      @JoseOnTour  Před 2 lety +4

      There are segments within the museum where my tears just ran down my face. I could not bring myself to go inside the Emmet Till room. My wife went and said it wasn’t as bad.
      The final Wing of the museum had a lot of our modern day history from Floyd to Brianna Taylor and it completely wrecked me. There is a lot of fun and great stuff within the museum but also alot of tragic memories.
      This is the not so fun part about history and it’ll vary per user. But I can tell you, it didn’t matter what background you were from, i saw white, black, hispanic, middle eastern, and asian pretty torn up.

  • @nicola1067
    @nicola1067 Před rokem +1

    I’m interested in knowing where did you do your training and research for this tour of the museum and I’m speaking to dad as a Smithsonian trained docent for the museum?

  • @BuddhaWho777
    @BuddhaWho777 Před rokem

    Slavery did not start from a labor shortage in any way. Slavery and the markets for slavery existed in Africa for 1000 years before the arrival of the Portuguese.

  • @clothface9331
    @clothface9331 Před rokem

    Blacksmithsonian markiologist

  • @javonnemotley5980
    @javonnemotley5980 Před 9 měsíci +1

    This is sad that this baby was done this way because of his color and to find out years later that this woman lied on him nobody should be brutally murdered in a manner like emmit was

  • @PatriciaLucious-ll2vm
    @PatriciaLucious-ll2vm Před 5 měsíci

    Genesis 15;13&14 Read that then look worldwide and see the Bible speak.

  • @Truth1_1
    @Truth1_1 Před 4 měsíci +1

    I just don't get why is it called African American museum. When those people aren't African they may be black but they are Americans

    • @JoseOnTour
      @JoseOnTour  Před 4 měsíci

      America loves labels. I am not sure where you are from but in America we often add the nationality to the respected group (Asian American, Italian America, and in my case Latino American or most recently LatinX).
      I've never seen myself anything other then American but it can all be traced to marketing from corporations. The term African American goes back to a Pennsylvania magazine ad in the 1700s as the earliest none usage of the label.

  • @paulad574
    @paulad574 Před měsícem +4

    Leaving out the timelines of our AFRAKAN , history. is ridiculous! We built civilizations in Africa and took our show on the road. How pitiful that we left that out of the Musuem for our children to see. What about our scientific and mathematic inventions! Our history did not begin with slavery! The further we go back the further we will progress. So depressing for me! Not chattel slavery there is a difference. Stop it!

  • @MadaraUchiha-cq9hb
    @MadaraUchiha-cq9hb Před rokem +1

    You didn't give a idea of WHERE you were in the building. This video was almost useless. Just some constructive criticism.

    • @JoseOnTour
      @JoseOnTour  Před rokem

      No worries, I usually put a GPS mark in my other videos since I am moving around from location to location. Since this was a museum walk and it’s only 3 floors I omitted the GPS markers. I can make an addendum in the info section to break down where everything is. The chapters more or less break out the floors. My work is not so much a traditional CZcams travel vlog but more of American History.

  • @ronturner1345
    @ronturner1345 Před rokem

    Do think African history starts in America
    The answer is no
    So why do you African history in America

  • @Hermanos22
    @Hermanos22 Před 6 měsíci

    Keep the victimisation alive 😂

  • @davidbraden1921
    @davidbraden1921 Před rokem +1

    Why isn't there a museum, for the millions of white slaves that suffered the same fate?

    • @JoseOnTour
      @JoseOnTour  Před rokem +2

      This is true and not a knock to the African American Museum since its the only one that discusses it out of the 35,000 museums in America. White slavery was much more common especially in Europe and yet so little information is available. I think I briefly touched upon it and other nations in this video and in Gettysburg. There is a small panel in the National Museum of American History which is not enough. I don't know why it's not discussed and even the terrible lives of the early immigrants through Ellis Island has slowly been swept under the rug.
      For others who read this comment here is some background (www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01440399808575226?journalCode=fsla20)

    • @davidbraden1921
      @davidbraden1921 Před rokem

      @@JoseOnTour thank you for the response and educating me on the matter!

    • @Jedi_Black
      @Jedi_Black Před rokem +5

      @@JoseOnTour
      This is not true.. no other ethnic group faced chattel slavery on American soil and went through nearly the amount of dehumanization and bloodshed that African Americans have faced on this soil so yes it’s very disrespectful to say that don’t diminish what our ancestors went through saying stuff like that..

    • @JoseOnTour
      @JoseOnTour  Před rokem

      @@Jedi_Black My response wasn't to diminish our history, it was to add some context on museums discussing white slavery. This comment wasn't generalized to American soil but on a global history as I added the statement of slavery in Europe, especially some examples like Irish slavery, or 30% of Ancient Romes population being slaves.
      On American soil and across the Americas, absolutely. America also had some of the harshest post slavery rules in comparison to other nations.
      This video is to celebrate the museum but also acknowledge the very detailed panels on slavery and the troubled history of African American culture in America.
      I don't think enough museums give as great detail as this museum does to flesh out the story of slavery and its impact to the world.
      This is a good summarized link of reading material on the history of slavery (web.archive.org/web/20140209215003/www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/slav_fact.cfm)

    • @cratesofjr
      @cratesofjr Před rokem +2

      @@Jedi_Black agreed on the point about chattel slavery. It seems like a a lot of people who come into these videos and comment are misinformed and believe all forms of slavery were the same. There is only one group who redefined slavery from a civilized practice of servitude to an inhuman practice of brutality. Chattel slavery was created during the Dark Ages of Europe were all sorts of depraved acts were invented and practiced amongst Caucasian people. Then they brought that culture and mindset to Africa unfortunately. Torture museums exists to this day in parts of Europe.

  • @PatriciaLucious-ll2vm
    @PatriciaLucious-ll2vm Před 5 měsíci

    They went from slave catcher to cop.

  • @ronturner1345
    @ronturner1345 Před rokem

    I would never visit these museums
    Their misleading

  • @Lakena2552
    @Lakena2552 Před 2 měsíci +1

    Avoid this museum at all costs!!!!! The employees there are extremely rude it was my very first and last time visiting this place! One of the cafeteria employees yelled at everyone in line to go get in the other lines which also had food but alot of people don't like certain foods, some people don't eat pork some people don't eat sweets some people don't eat chicken ETC and that soul food cafeteria is expensive and over priced and very crowded they charge you $8.00 just for bottled water! The museum is way to crowded to enjoy the exhibits the bottom level is way to dark and to dim to see and read artifacts from the slavery days! It's really not worth visiting period.

    • @barbarag5387
      @barbarag5387 Před měsícem

      The point of this museum is the depth and wealth of historical information found there. That of which cannot be found anywhere else. I was “filled” with pride for how much our people endured and still persevered.