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2. DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center - Wikipedia

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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 ...

3. List of museums and cultural institutions in Chicago - Wikipedia

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   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.

4. History of African Americans in Chicago - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

5. List of museums focused on African Americans - Wikipedia

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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 ...

6. List of museums in Illinois - Wikipedia

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   ABA Museum of Law, Chicago, closed in 2011; African-American Heritage Museum and Black Veterans Archives, Aurora, former sculpture park dedicated to the leaders of Black American history, closed in 2000. Relocated to Hammonds, LA. [72] [73] American Police Center & Museum, Chicago [74] Americana Hollywood Museum, Metropolis [75]

7. West Side, Chicago - Wikipedia

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   A Chicago Public Schools student on the West Side in 1973 reading a book on rulers throughout African history. During the late 1960s, the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party had its headquarters on the West Side on Madison Street near Western Avenue.

8. Culture of Chicago - Wikipedia

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   Culture of Chicago. The culture of Chicago, Illinois is known for the invention or significant advancement of several performing arts, including improvisational comedy, house music, industrial music, blues, hip hop, gospel, jazz [1] and soul. [2] The city is known for its Chicago School and Prairie School architecture.

9. Category:African-American history in Chicago - Wikipedia

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   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.