Business owners need access to resources that fuel growth. Beyond resources, entrepreneurs need visibility. The A.G. Gaston Business Institute is the place to provide a proper foundation for your business to learn, scale and grow. The A.G. Gaston Business Directory is not just a directory. This business directory will get your business recognized by promoting its products and services. We will expose your business to available opportunities and advocate through our network-connecting your business with other companies and corporations.
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FOOD/VENDING
From home brews to brick and mortars, your next cup of coffee should come from a small business!
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Many small businesses in Birmingham can provide you with services to support your personal or professional life.
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FOOD/VENDING
From home brews to brick and mortars, your next cup of coffee should come from a small business!
Find a new experience by visiting or shopping with a small business in the food and beverage industry today.
Gaston Business Institute Bucket List of Places to Visit
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, part of the Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument and an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, is a cultural and educational research center that promotes a comprehensive understanding for the significance of civil rights developments in Birmingham. Celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2022, BCRI reaches more than 150,000 individuals each year through award-winning programs and services.
The Louis Armstrong House Museum
The Louis Armstrong House Museum (LAHM) sustains and promotes the cultural, historical, and humanitarian legacy of Louis Armstrong by preserving and interpreting Armstrong’s house and grounds, collecting and sharing archival materials that document Armstrong’s life and legacy, developing programs for the public that educate and inspire, and engaging with contemporary artists to create performances and new works.
The Harriet Tubman Home
The Harriet Tubman Home, Inc. is an independent non-profit established by the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church to manage and operate the homestead of Ms. Tubman. The Harriet Tubman Home is charged with sharing Harriet Tubman’s core values with visitors through a guided tour of the property. On January 10, 2017 the Harriet Tubman National Historical Park was established.
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center is the preeminent cultural learning center for inclusive freedom — locally, nationally and globally.
African Meeting House
The African Meeting House opened in 1806 and is the oldest surviving Black church structure in the nation. Built by a small but powerful free African American community, it served as a church, school and gathering place for political activism and cultural life. Widely known as the “Black Faneuil Hall,” it hosted numerous community meetings of activist organizations, such as the Massachusetts General Colored Association, the New England Anti-slavery Society, and the New England Freedom Association, a group dedicated to assisting freedom seekers on the Underground Railroad.
The Legacy Museum
The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration is situated on a site in Montgomery where Black people were forced to labor in bondage. Blocks from one of the most prominent slave auction spaces in America, the Legacy Museum is steps away from the rail station where tens of thousands of Black people were trafficked during the 19th century.
Delta Blues Museum
Since its creation, the Delta Blues Museum has preserved, interpreted, and encouraged a deep interest in the story of the blues. Established in 1979 by the Carnegie Public Library Board of Trustees and re-organized as a stand-alone museum in 1999, the Delta Blues Museum is the state’s oldest music museum.
Penn Center
The campus of the former Penn School, one of the nation’s first schools for formerly enslaved people, is one of the most significant African American institutions in existence today. This historic and cultural institution is a National Historic Landmark District and comprises two of the four sites in Reconstruction Era National Park.
Negro Leagues Baseball Museum
The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum (NLBM) is the world’s only museum dedicated to preserving and celebrating the rich history of African-American baseball and its impact on the social advancement of America.
Colored Musicians Club Museum
The Colored Musicians Club is the only remaining African American club of its kind in the United States. In 1999, it was designated a historical preservation site. The Club is promoting historical research and the preservation of jazz in Buffalo. The museum, created by Hadley Exhibits, is not to be missed!
National Museum of African American History and Culture
The National Museum of African American History and Culture is the only national museum devoted exclusively to the documentation of African American life, history, and culture. It was established by an Act of Congress in 2003, following decades of efforts to promote and highlight the contributions of African Americans.
National Museum of African American Music
The National Museum of African American Music (NMAAM) officially opened in January 2021 at Fifth + Broadway in Nashville, Tennessee. The 56,000-square-foot institution is the only museum dedicated to educating, preserving, and celebrating more than 50 music genres and styles that were created, influenced, and/or inspired by African Americans, including spirituals, blues, jazz, gospel, R&B, and hip hop. Our six distinct galleries feature artifacts, objects, memorabilia, clothing, and state-of-the-art technology designed to share a different narrative and a unique perspective on African American music and history.
National Voting Rights Museum and Institute
Located in the Historic District of Selma, Alabama at the foot of the famous Edmund Pettus Bridge, the scene of “Bloody Sunday,” the National Voting Rights Museum & Institute is the cornerstone of the contemporary struggle for voting rights and human dignity.
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Motown Museum
Motown Museum is the ongoing heartbeat of the Motown legacy—a global tourist destination for music and history fans that celebrates the authentic story of Motown from its humble beginnings to its emergence as the “Sound of Young America” and beyond. The Museum brings together fans, people and ideas from different generations and it captures the imagination to fuel dreams and inspire accomplishments.
Brown Estate
The Brown Estate label officially established in 1996 when we harvested what would become our first bottling of Brown Zin. In January 2000 we debuted our first three vintages at the annual ZAP (Zinfandel Advocates & Producers) Grand Tasting in San Francisco. Fast forward to August 2021… when we bottled our 25th vintage.
Museum of the Reconstruction Era
The Museum of the Reconstruction Era at the Woodrow Wilson Family Home is the nation’s only museum dedicated to interpreting the post-Civil War Reconstruction period and is housed in South Carolina’s only remaining presidential site. Through a multifaceted interpretation, the Museum of the Reconstruction Era interprets Columbia’s late 19th-century history to dispel the myths of Reconstruction that are so prevalent in society today.
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