A room at the Tenement Museum in an as-yet unrestored space that will be dedicated to a 19th-century Black waiter, Joseph Moore, and his family, in New York, May 27, 2021. As the museum prepares to ...
The recreated tenement room where Rachel and Joseph Moore slept (photo Elaine Velie/Hyperallergic) In 1863, 25- and 35-year-old Black New Yorkers Rachel and Joseph Moore moved into a tenement at Lower ...