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America’s Black Holocaust Museum is on the ground level of a new mixed-use building at the corner of West North and Vel R. Phillips avenues and is helping revive Milwaukee's Bronzeville neighborhood.
Robert Davis, president and CEO of America’s Black Holocaust Museum in Milwaukee, explains one of the powerful exhibits in the 5,000-square-foot space. The museum, which recently reopened after being closed for 14 years, covers 500 years of African American history.
Various migration patterns of African Americans are mapped out in an exhibit at America’s Black Holocaust Museum in Milwaukee.
Robert Davis, the president and CEO of America’s Black Holocaust Museum, shows off the display at the entrance to the museum, which tells the story of the museum's founder, James Cameron, who at age 16 was nearly lynched in Marion, Indiana.
One of the exhibits at America’s Black Holocaust Museum includes displays about slave ships. Other exhibits focus on Jim Crow, reconstruction, Africa and the civil rights movement.
America’s Black Holocaust Museum opened in 1988 and closed its physical space in 2008. It has now reopened in a new space on Milwaukee's north side.
An exhibit on African Americans in sports is among the exhibits at America’s Black Holocaust Museum in Milwaukee. It includes images of Hank Aaron, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Colin Kaepernick, all of whom have Wisconsin ties.
Joshua Glover escaped a plantation in Missouri and fled to Wisconsin in 1852. His story is among those featured at America’s Black Holocaust Museum in Milwaukee.
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America's Black Holocaust Museum
Robert Davis, president and CEO of America’s Black Holocaust Museum in Milwaukee, explains one of the powerful exhibits in the 5,000-square-foot space. The museum, which recently reopened after being closed for 14 years, covers 500 years of African American history.
America's Black Holocaust Museum
An exhibit on African Americans in sports is among the exhibits at America’s Black Holocaust Museum in Milwaukee. It includes images of Hank Aaron, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Colin Kaepernick, all of whom have Wisconsin ties.
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Dr. Robert Davis, the President and CEO of the America’s Black Holocaust Museum, describes the process for making a video reflecting based on a visitor's experience of the museum in Milwaukee, Wis., Wednesday, March 9, 2022. KAYLA WOLF, STATE JOURNAL
America's Black Holocaust Museum
Various migration patterns of African Americans are mapped out in an exhibit at America’s Black Holocaust Museum in Milwaukee.
America's Black Holocaust Museum
America’s Black Holocaust Museum opened in 1988 and closed its physical space in 2008. It has now reopened in a new space on Milwaukee's north side.
America's Black Holocaust Museum
One of the exhibits at America’s Black Holocaust Museum includes displays about slave ships. Other exhibits focus on Jim Crow, reconstruction, Africa and the civil rights movement.
America's Black Holocaust Museum
Robert Davis, the president and CEO of America’s Black Holocaust Museum, shows off the display at the entrance to the museum, which tells the story of the museum's founder, James Cameron, who at age 16 was nearly lynched in Marion, Indiana.
America's Black Holocaust Museum
Joshua Glover escaped a plantation in Missouri and fled to Wisconsin in 1852. His story is among those featured at America’s Black Holocaust Museum in Milwaukee.
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Dr. Robert Davis, the President and CEO of the America’s Black Holocaust Museum, walks through the Museum in Milwaukee, Wis., Wednesday, March 9, 2022. KAYLA WOLF, STATE JOURNAL
America's Black Holocaust Museum
America’s Black Holocaust Museum is on the ground level of a new mixed-use building at the corner of West North and Vel R. Phillips avenues and is helping revive Milwaukee's Bronzeville neighborhood.
Barry Adams covers regional news for the Wisconsin State Journal. Send him ideas for On Wisconsin at 608-252-6148 or by email at badams@madison.com.
