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Reopening America’s Black Holocaust Museum

Category: Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion

blooloop speaks to Dr. Robert Davis, the President and CEO of America’s Black Holocaust Museum, about successfully fundraising to reopen the museum’s physical space after more than a decade, and how new interpretation onsite makes the most of the racial justice movement in the country.

On 25 February 2022, America's Black Holocaust Museum (ABHM) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, opened its doors to the public for the first time since 2008. The museum, which is both a historical and a memorial museum , was founded in 1988 by Dr James Cameron, one of the only known survivors of a lynching.

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