PHOTOS: America’s Black Holocaust Museum plans an in-person opening in February | Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
Sue Vliet
September 29, 2021
Community leaders on Tuesday announced that America’s Black Holocaust Museum will reopen to in-person visits on Feb. 25 at 401 W. North Ave.
The museum began in 1984 in a storefront under the leadership of James Cameron. In 1988, the museum moved to a larger space where it remained until its doors closed in 2008. Four years later, the museum went virtual.
The February date is the birthday of Cameron, the only known survivor of a lynching.
The museum began in 1984 as a storefront. (Photos by Sue Vliet)
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James Cameron survived a lynching attempt in 1930 when he was 16 years old.
Dr. Robert “Bert” Davis announces the reopening during a news conference Tuesday. Davis returned to Milwaukee in September 2019 as the president and CEO of America’s Black Holocaust Museum.
From left: Kimberly Eubanks, ABHM; Elis Ramos-Garcia, ABHM; Terry Schuster, Signature Services; Mia Phifer, ABHM; Cydney Hargro, ABHM; Marybeth Budisch, Sabljak and Budisch;  Dr. Robert “Bert” Davis; Pat Boelter, Signature Services (behind Davis); Chauntel McKenzie, The PowHER Network; Casey Jolley, NMBL Strategies; Dion Brown, NMBL Strategies; and Brad Pruitt, ABHM, at the news conference.
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