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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 ...
DuSable Museum of African American History. Haitian American Museum of Chicago. Irish American Heritage Center. Lithuanian Research and Studies Center. National Hellenic Museum. National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame. National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture. Mitchell Museum of the American Indian.
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 history of African Americans in Chicago or Black Chicagoans dates back to Jean Baptiste Point du Sable 's trading activities in the 1780s. Du Sable, the city's founder, was Haitian of African and French descent. [4] Fugitive slaves and freedmen established the city's first Black community in the 1840s. By the late 19th century, the first ...
This category contains only the following file. Chicago Defender July 31 1948.jpg 273 × 366; 42 KB. Categories: Ethnic groups in Chicago. African-American history by city. African-American history of Illinois. History of Chicago.
African Americans. The Chicago Black Renaissance (also known as the Black Chicago Renaissance) was a creative movement that blossomed out of the Chicago Black Belt on the city's South Side and spanned the 1930s and 1940s before a transformation in art and culture took place in the mid-1950s through the turn of the century.
Archibald John Motley, Jr. (October 7, 1891 – January 16, 1981), [1] was an American visual artist. Motley is most famous for his colorful chronicling of the African-American experience in Chicago during the 1920s and 1930s, and is considered one of the major contributors to the Harlem Renaissance, or the New Negro Movement, a time in which African-American art reached new heights not just ...
This action marked the beginning of the dissolution of the Confederate Government and the end of the war the following April. Robert Gould Shaw Memorial, Boston African American National Historic Site, Boston, MA. Boston African American National Historic Site – Boston, Massachusetts. Camilla-Zack Community Center District – Mayfield, Georgia.