Posts Tagged ‘Dr. James Cameron’
Lynching Survivor’s Memoir Wins Prestigious Book Award
Dr. James Cameron’s memoir A Time of Terror: A Survivor’s Story received the 2016 Independent Publisher Book Silver Award for the Great Lakes – Best Regional Non-Fiction during a ceremony held May 10th in Chicago. It is the only account of a lynching ever written by a survivor. The prize-winning 3rd edition contains 50 vintage photos, over 100 background notes, never-before-published chapters, and a Foreword, Introduction, and Afterword.
Read MoreToday: Crowd-Funding Campaign Launched to Publish “A Time of Terror: A Survivor’s Story”
Dr. James Cameron’s memoir of his lynching, “A Time of Terror: A Survivor’s Story,” will be republished through a crowd-funding campaign.
Read MoreDr. James Cameron Featured in New Book about Supersurvivors!
Supersurvivors explores extraordinary accomplishments in the wake of catastrophe to explain how ordinary people achieve extraordinary things.
Read MoreABHM Celebrates Dr. Cameron’s 100th Birthday with Racial Reconciliation Gathering
America’s Black Holocaust Museum’s celebration of founder Dr. James Cameron’s 100th birthday was an opportunity for racial repair.
Read MoreRemembering Dr. James Cameron, 1914-2006
Activist and founder of America’s Black Holocaust Museum, Dr. James Cameron, will always be remembered for his work.
Read MorePodcast: Third Coast Digest Mark Metcalf interviews Virgil Cameron and Fran Kaplan about ABHM’s Past, Present and Future
ABHM’s Virgil Cameron and Fran Kaplan sat down with Mark Metcalf from Urban Milwaukee to record a podcast interview.
Read MoreDr. James Cameron, Museum Founder and Lynching Survivor
James Cameron was just sixteen in 1930 when he and two other teens were lynched in Marion, Indiana. His friends were killed but, miraculously, James survived. He spent a year in jail awaiting trial for the murder that triggered the lynching. He was sentenced as an accessory before the fact and served four years in the Indiana Reformatory with hardened adult criminals.
Cameron believed God saved him for a purpose. He left prison resolved to do something “worthwhile and God-like.” He spent the rest of his long life working to help us understand this tragic chapter of American history. Dr. Cameron showed us how to cope with our painful legacy through love, justice, and reconciliation.
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