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Website. www.dusablemuseum.org. The DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center, formerly the DuSable Museum of African American History, is a museum in Chicago that is dedicated to the study and conservation of African-American history, culture, and art. It was founded in 1961 by Margaret Taylor-Burroughs, her husband Charles Burroughs ...
Located in the park is the DuSable Museum of African American History. This park was the proposed site of the Olympic Stadium and the Olympic swimming venue for Chicago's bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympics. Washington Park was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 20, 2004.
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Washington Park is a community area on the South Side of Chicago which includes the 372 acre (1.5 km 2) park of the same name, [2] stretching east-west from Cottage Grove Avenue to the Dan Ryan Expressway, and north-south from 51st Street to 63rd. It is home to the DuSable Museum of African American History.
Margaret Burroughs. Margaret Taylor-Burroughs (November 1, 1915 [a] – November 21, 2010), [1][2] also known as Margaret Taylor Goss, Margaret Taylor Goss Burroughs or Margaret T G Burroughs, was an American visual artist, writer, poet, educator, and arts organizer. She co-founded the Ebony Museum of Chicago, now the DuSable Museum of African ...
The DuSable Museum of African American History, Chicago, IL, where the Thomas Miller mural mosaics (c.1995) are installed in the lobby. Thomas Miller (December 24, 1920 [ 1] – July 19, 2012) was a prolific graphic designer and visual artist, whose best known publicly accessible work is the collection of mosaics of the founders of DuSable ...
Debra Hand. Known for. Sculpture. Debra Hand is a self-taught artist and sculptor from Chicago, Illinois. She created a bronze statue of the poet Paul Laurence Dunbar after receiving a commission to do so from the Chicago Park District in 2012. The statue, which is 9 feet (2.7 m) tall, was unveiled at the city's Dunbar Park in 2014.