Founding of the DuSable Museum

CTL-E-0265 · Event · founding · 1961

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Margaret Burroughs founds the DuSable Museum of African American History, the nation's first independent Black history museum

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Dr. Margaret Burroughs — initiated → this record

Sources

DuSable Museum official history (primary source)
Encyclopedia of Chicago: DuSable Museum

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