CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - The International African American Museum in Charleston welcomed hundreds of people on Labor Day on a mission to have 500,000 visitors experience the site by the end of the year.

The museum’s ‘Road to 500K Campaign’ emphasizes the need for funding and support to ensure more visitors can access the museum. Museum leaders say their campaign is essential to ensure people across the country can learn about Black history, the history of slavery and Charleston’s ties to it.

“It means something special to be in this place, a site of a former transatlantic slave trading port, and look at what one of the descendants is doing now,” IAAM President and CEO Dr. Tonya Matthews says. “We’re here to tell this story and invite everyone to participate in it with us.”

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