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Dr. Carter G. Woodson African American History Museum: St. Petersburg: Florida: 2006 [57] DuSable Museum of African American History: Chicago: Illinois: 1960 [20] Eddie Mae Herron Center and Museum: Pocahontas: Arkansas: 2001 [58] Ely Educational Museum: Pompano Beach: Florida: 2000 [59] Evansville African American Museum Evansville: Indiana ...
The railroad and meatpacking industries recruited Black workers. Chicago's African-American newspaper, the Chicago Defender, made the city well known to southerners. It sent bundles of papers south on the Illinois Central trains, and African-American Pullman Porters would drop them off in Black towns. "Chicago was the most accessible northern ...
The DuSable Black History Museum was chartered on February 16, 1961. [2] Its origins as the Ebony Museum of Negro History and Art began in the work of Margaret and Charles Burroughs, Bernard Goss, and others to correct the perceived omission of black history and culture in the education establishment.
Chicago Cultural Center. The city of Chicago, Illinois, has many cultural institutions and museums, large and small.Major cultural institutions include: the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Architecture Foundation, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Goodman Theater, Joffrey Ballet, Central Public Harold Washington Library, and the Chicago Cultural Center, all in the Loop;
Eleanor Roosevelt at the dedication of South Side Community Art Center (May 7, 1941). Efforts to open a community art center on Chicago's South Side began in 1938. Peter Pollack, a Federal Art Project official, contacted Metz Lochard, an editor at the Chicago Defender, about having the Art Project sponsor exhibitions of African American artists, who often had trouble securing space to display ...
The A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum is in the Pullman District. Unionization of African American workers began in 1925, when the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters was founded by A. Philip Randolph in New York City. Forty-four percent of the Pullman workforce was porters, making Pullman the nation's largest employer of African Americans.
Museum of African-American History may refer to: National Museum of African American History and Culture, in Washington, D.C. DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center, in Chicago, Illinois; African American Museum in Philadelphia in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; African Meeting House, in Boston, Massachusetts; Charles H. Wright Museum of ...
Chicago Department of Human Resource float in the 1973 parade. Photo by John H. White. Barack Obama float for 2004 U.S. Senate race in the 2004 parade. Miss Black Illinois in the 2004 parade. U.S. Navy band marches in the 2008 parade. Anti-violence group for a Chicago high school in the 2008 parade. Hillcrest High School marching band in the ...