Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History

CTL-E-5942 · Institution · museum · 1965–present

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Combined Graph record U-07184 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5942.

The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit was founded in 1965 by Dr. Charles H. Wright, an obstetrician, together with thirty other founders, as the International Afro-American Museum; it opened in January 1966 at 1549 West Grand Boulevard. The museum's current home, a 125,000-square-foot facility at 315 East Warren Avenue, opened in 1997. Its collection holds more than 35,000 artifacts, and its core exhibition, And Still We Rise, spans 22,000 square feet. The museum houses the National Museum of the Tuskegee Airmen and produces the annual African World Festival. Its rotunda has served the nation's mourning: Rosa Parks lay in state there in 2005 and Aretha Franklin in 2018. The Wright is one of the largest African American history museums in the United States and the institutional anchor of Detroit's cultural center.

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• Also known as: The Wright Museum, International Afro-American Museum

Notes

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Relationships

• Detroit — located in
  The Charles H. Wright Museum stands at 315 E. Warren Avenue, Detroit.

Sources

• Wikipedia, "Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History" (accessed 2026-10-16) — 1965 founding by Dr. Charles H. Wright and thirty others as the International Afro-American Museum, January 1966 opening, the 1997 Warren Avenue facility at 125,000 square feet, the 35,000-artifact collection, And Still We Rise at 22,000 square feet, the Parks (2005) and Franklin (2018) lyings-in-state, and the 300,000-visitor 2019 figure — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_H._Wright_Museum_of_African_American_History (primary source · build store)
• Michigan.org (state tourism authority), "Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History" (accessed 2026-10-16) — independent state listing confirming the museum, its Detroit cultural-center site, and its standing — https://www.michigan.org/node/1984 (primary source · build store)

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