On April 12, 1997, the world’s largest black history museum opened in Detroit. The 120,000-square-foot Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History houses more than 30,000 artifacts and archival materials and is home to the Blanche Coggin Underground Railroad Collection, Harriet Tubman Museum Collection, Coleman A. Young Collection and the Sheffield Collection and a repository of documents of the labor movement in Detroit.
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Source: Michigan Every Day