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Read More >Events Calendar Facility Rental Share The Original Brick-and-Mortar Museum (1984-2008) America’s Black Holocaust Museum was founded in 1984 in a Milwaukee, Wisconsin storefront by Dr. James Cameron, the only known…
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Dr. James Cameron, who survived a lynching as a teenager in 1930, founded America’s Black Holocaust Museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1988. He dedicated his entire life to helping America realize its promise of liberty and justice for all. An early civil rights activist, he fought racial segregation in 1940s Indiana.
After moving to Milwaukee, Cameron published a memoir about his lynching and coming of age during the Jim Crow era. He traveled the country educating audiences at high schools, colleges, and other venues about the Black Holocaust as an integral part of US history, seen through the lens of these personal experiences.
Read More >About ABHM Share About ABHM Our Mission and Vision What is the Black Holocaust? Our Four Themes: Remembrance, Resistance, Redemption, Reconciliation Dr. Cameron: Founder, Lynching Survivor “A Time of Terror:…
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ABHM announces its restoration as a physical museum. A $7 million capital (building fund) campaign will enable the museum to be housed on its former site but on the ground floor of a brand new apartment building in Milwaukee’s historic Bronzeville neighborhood.
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This article explores why Independence Day and patriotism in America mean something different to the African/African-American community than to white Americans. It shows how Black Americans have endured vastly differing experiences from white Americans, because unalienable rights supposed afforded in America do not apply, have not applied, to them.
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Some Dallas county commissioners were surprised to realized they voted for reparations after failing to read a full bill,
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Segregation resulted in historically Black hospitals, like Houston’s Riverside General Hospital, which is still operational.
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The comedian’s social media post was a stark reminder than freedom was not achieved equitably in this country.
Read More >The River Road African American Museum director uses Freedom Gardens as unique teaching tools to help her students understand Black history.
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