National Museum of Gospel Music

CTL-E-1256 · Institution · museum · unspecified

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Planned, unbuilt national museum on the Pilgrim Baptist Church site (3301 S. Indiana Ave., Bronzeville), the proclaimed birthplace of gospel music under Thomas A. Dorsey. Spearheaded by Don Jackson (Stellar Gospel Music Awards founder; former DuSable Museum chairman); $37.2M plans unveiled 2017 targeting 2020; $2.1M state funding secured; still unrealized. Case study of community-led preservation effort and of a knowledge institution that exists as plans, not yet as a building.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from INST-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-INST-001:INST-055; source research type(s): museum. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

Sources

S-codes S42,S43 (see working/track-b/sources.md)
S-codes S44,S45 (see working/track-b/sources.md)
S-codes S43 (see working/track-b/sources.md)
S-codes S44 (see working/track-b/sources.md)
S-codes (see working/track-b/sources.md)

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