Center for African American Art & Culture

To capture that history and tell the stories of those African Americans descendants who played pivotal roles in the development of the United States. The center is important to African American culture because African cultures, slavery, slave rebellions, and the civil rights movement have shaped African-American religious, familial, political, and economic behaviors.
The imprint of Africa is evident in a myriad of ways: in politics, economics, language, music, hairstyles, fashion, dance, religion, cuisine, and worldview. The Center is dedicated to the collection, preservation, interpretation and dissemination of the contributions and accomplishments of African Americans in the United States, it is designed to educate and inform the public by offering an interactive curriculum focusing on history and the arts.

This center is located at the:
    Zora Neale Hurston Branch Library
    3008 Avenue D
    Fort Pierce, Florida 34950