Tenement Museum Honors African-American Family’s Story in New York

From the Irish fleeing the great famine of the 19th century to survivors of the Holocaust, the Tenement Museum preserves the memories of immigrants who shaped New York: now, it will also tell the life of an African-American family, so that the story be “more honest“.

It is a narrow two-room apartment, with rustic floors and wooden furniture, impeccably tidy, where visitors enter. The laundry hangs in the kitchen, two beds fill the other room. On a fireplace, a portrait of Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the United States and architect of the abolition of slavery in 1865.

Welcome to Joseph and Rachel Moore, an African-American couple who huddled here, without running water, with three other residents : There’s Jane, sister-in-law from Rachel’s first marriage, Rose, an Irish immigrant, and her mixed-race son Louis, 14, lists Kathryn Lloyd, who is leading a pilot visit, ahead of its official launch after Christmas.

2023-12-27 11:17:28
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