ABHM Book Club: Black Patriots and Loyalists by Alan Gilbert

We are pleased to announce ABHM’s July Book of the Month: Black Patriots and Loyalists: Fighting for Emancipation in the War for Independence by Alan Gilbert. We invite you to join us on July 25th at 1:30 p.m. for a discussion of the book at America’s Black Holocaust Museum (ABHM) or virtually via Zoom.

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Book Swap & ABHM Book Club

In partnership with the Milwaukee Public Library, join America’s Black Holocaust Museum (ABHM) at the MPL–Good Hope Branch for an evening of conversation exploring the accessibility of scholarship, activism, and the role cultural institutions play in telling the story of America. The evening will conclude with an ABHM Book Club discussion of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings by Annette Gordon-Reed followed by a community book swap.

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ABHM Book Club: Thomas Jefferson & Sally Hemings by Annette Gordon-Reed

We are pleased to announce ABHM’s June Book of the Month: Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy by Annette Gordon-Reed. We invite you to join us on June 22nd at 6:00 p.m. for a discussion of the book at the Milwaukee Public Library – Good Hope Branch. Prior to the book club discussion, guests are invited to attend a panel conversation beginning at 5:00 p.m. Following the discussion, participants are welcome to stay for a community book swap.

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ABHM Book Club: Black In Blues by Imani Perry

We are pleased to announce ABHM’s May’s Book of the Month: Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People by Imani Perry. We invite you to join us on May 30th at 1:30 p.m. for a discussion of the book at America’s Black Holocaust Museum or virtually via Zoom.

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Give A Book / Take A Book Social Hour

ABHM Book Club Social Hour

We invite you to join us on December 17th at the museum with other ABHM Book Club participants for a book exchange followed by a discussion of the Well-Read Black Girl anthology. Please bring with you at least one book you would like to pass along to someone else, and you will receive at least one in return! Books by Black authors or about the themes related to ABHM Book Club’s mission are encouraged.

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ABHM Book Club: Malcolm Lives by Ibram X Kendi

We are excited to announce a very special edition of the ABHM Book Club! For July, we will be reading Dr. Ibram X Kendi’s new book for middle schoolers, Malcolm Lives! in partnership with We Got This and the museum’s Jr Griots (our high school summer docents).

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ABHM Book Club: Great Speeches By Frederick Douglass

ABHM Book Club promo for Great Speeches By Frederick Douglass

As part of our Civic Season programming, explore Great Speeches by Frederick Douglass, a powerful collection of oratory by one of America’s most influential abolitionists and political thinkers. Featuring landmark speeches like “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” and “Self-Made Men,” this volume highlights Douglass’s unmatched eloquence and enduring calls for justice, equality, and individual empowerment during a defining era in American history.

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ABHM Book Club: I Had A Hammer

ABHM Book Club’s May selection is I Had a Hammer by Hank Aaron, which we will discuss both virtually and in person at the Grohmann Museum. This selection is in partnership with the Team Beckum Public History project as part of the forthcoming exhibition at the Grohmann Museum, “Going to Work for the Community: A Visual History of the Beckum-Stapleton Little League.”

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