ABHM Membership Promotion

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There is still time to become an ABHM member and visit Charles Allis and Villa Terrace art museums for FREE on December 1st! As ABHM members, you will experience Ghosts of Segregation and Grounded free.

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Join Us on February 25th for ABHM’s Ribbon-Cutting and Celebration!

It’s been 14 years since ABHM closed its doors – but finally, thanks to the hard work and dedication of a small group of community volunteers and staff, a very generous anonymous donor and many other individual donors, Alderwoman Milele Coggs and developer Melissa Goins, the physical museum has been reborn!

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America’s Black Holocaust Museum receives a $10 million commitment!

America’s Black Holocaust Museum (ABHM) is the recipient of a $10 million commitment made by an anonymous donor through the Greater Milwaukee Foundation. This transformational commitment is in support of ABHM’s recent announcement to reopen on February 25, 2022, and a strategic plan by NMBL Strategies that provides a roadmap to growth and sustainability for generations to come.

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ABHM and WBHS Combine to Celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2021

Clayborn Benson, Director of the Wisconsin Black Historical Society, and Dr. Robert S. Smith, Resident Historian at America’s Black Holocaust Museum,  converse about Dr. King’s travels to Milwaukee and Wisconsin. They also discuss his brilliant intellect and simple but not simplistic ways of articulating the call for civil rights.

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