Posts Tagged ‘Fran Kaplan’
June 2017
A listing of educational programs presented by ABHM griots in June 2017.
Read MoreDr. Cameron’s Memoir To Be Presented at SE Wisconsin Festival of Books 11/4/16
Where to hear a talk about and get copies of the greatly expanded and awardwinning 3rd edition of A Time of Terror: A Survivor’s Story by lynching survivor James Cameron.
Read MoreTime of Terror Book Talks & Exhibits in June 2016
Listing and descriptions of book talks and traveling exhibit locations in June 2016.
Read MoreLynching 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 MoreRemembering the Black Holocaust
Dr. Fran Kaplan, Coordinator of America’s Black Holocaust Virtual Museum [Fall 2011-Fall 2017], speaks about the online museum and how, as a white woman, she became involved.
Read MoreRacial Repair and Reconciliation: A Homecoming
By Dr. Fran Kaplan, Guest Blogger, Wisconsin Humanities Note: Staff of the Wisconsin Humanities Council (WHC) asked ABHM’s Virtual Museum Director to blog about her personal reactions to the Gathering for Racial Repair and Reconciliation that honored the museum’s founder, Dr. James Cameron, in February 2014. WHC funded the Gathering. (…) As I looked around…
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 MoreBET Announces: America’s Black Holocaust Museum Goes Viral
While the physical museum hasn’t always been open, the virtual museum allows visitors from around the world to connect.
Read MoreNPR’s Ann-Elise Henzel interviews Virgil Cameron and Fran Kaplan about ABHM’s Virtual Museum
A brief interview with Virgil Cameron, son of ABHM Founder James Cameron, and Dr. Fran Kaplan, Coordinator of the new Virtual Museum.
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