Hall of Records • Music and Sound Scott Joplin | Ragtime, Composition and a Black American Sound Scott Joplin helped define classic ragtime through compositions including “Maple Leaf Rag”...

Hall of Records • Mysticism and Spirituality Father Divine | The Peace Mission and Black Spiritual Authority Father Divine built the International Peace Mission into a multiracial religious movement...

Hall of Records • Places and Cultural Geography Hayti, Durham | Black Community, Enterprise and the Cost of Urban Renewal Hayti grew from a post-Civil War Black community into...

Hall of Records • Stories and Oral History Born in Slavery | The Federal Writers’ Project Slave Narratives, 1936–1938 During the 1930s, Federal Writers’ Project workers recorded more than...