Fox News' Lawrence Jones embarks on the Savannah Black history tour for Black History Month.
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we are celebrating black.
We are celebrating black
history all month long here on
the Fox NEWS Channel by
showcasing the rich history of
the african American Community
Fox AMP friends. Analyst Lawrence
Jones joins us now to show one
way: thats happening in
Savannah Georgia. Hey
Lawrence
Savannah is one of Americas
oldest cities, with tons of
historical landmarks that have
helped shaped black history and
one way to see to see sites a
public bus.
I got a firsthand look at how
transit known as cat is helping
locals and tourists explore just
in time for black history month.
Take a look
im in Savannah Georgia at a
bus station, and I know this may
not be the location where you
you would think I would learn
black history, but this is a
means of transportation.
Im ready to take you on the
Savannah black history. Tour
lets get moving.
So tell me a little bit about
why you guys decided to do this.
As you know, February is
black history month. So what
better way to celebrate some of
the amazing black history
landmark? That is, we have here in
Savannah than by creating a
self guided tour than transit
bus.
His view is to complicate
history,
you had white masters and you
had the slave corridors.
Free african Americans were
actually afforded the
opportunity to be buried,
wow
founded by some of savannahs.
First american entrepreneurs.
The history is rich, and I
think this is our first stop
right.
This is our first stop.
This is the first African
Baptist Church
had beginnings and the
congregation took money that
they could have used to purchase
freedom and decide today build a
sanctuary to God
theres holes in the grounds
theres tunnels that go to
Savannah River.
When you look at the holes, the
finish floor and the tunnels, we
know it must have been part of
an underground railroad.
Wow. Take me through a
journey.
These are the new pews. They
were in one thousand nine hundred and one
you said original pews in the
back its like markings right
here.
Yes, sir,
this is really incredible
kind of hard to leave the
church to go to another spot, but
here we are at at the Savannah
ART Museum
within one country. You could
have several different cultures:
several different languages
made of Tercata textiles,
wood,
its used in annual ceremony
by people in Nigeria in honoring
ancestors.
This comes from Cameroon.
This shows incorporated into the
object itself.
We are proud just because black
history month, isnt just one
month for us its a year round
celebration,
please enter from the front
door.
Our next stop is Beach
Institute,
one of the first schools to
educate african Americans in the
city of Savannah back in 1800s
its a flagship museum that
brings to life the
african american history and
culture here in Savannah.
This is a jewel in our community
and like any treasure, it needs
to be lifted up and needs to be
cherished and need to be
celebrated.
Black history is american
history.
We must tell our story.
We must keep those stories
alive.
We went to a tour about our
history,
so Savannah is the great
place to come to learn all about
the journey of african american
life of african american
history. Here in America,
now Ainsley you can get
more info on the tour at
cat dot. Org
she put NIT a nutshell. Black
history is mean american history.
I was fascinated in black church
where people could have bought
their freedom and instead build
a sanctuary. They knew that
underneath there was a river
going to the under ground
railroad and to get their way to
freedom,
its an amazing story,
Ainsley that was fascinating.
We were amazed by that.
Thank you so much for that tour.
It was just we do need to
keep the stories alive.
I appreciate you doing this for
Us Lawrence.
Thank you.
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Transcript generated on 2021-03-08.