New Virtual Gallery: Risking Everything, The Fight for Black Voting Rights

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October 6, 2024

In collaboration with the Wisconsin Black Historical Society & Museum, the Milwaukee County Historical Society, and the Wisconsin Historical Society, America’s Black Holocaust Museum is proud to announce its newest virtual gallery. Risking Everything: The Fight for Black Voting Rights tells the story of the struggle for Black voting rights through multimedia, text, and even song! The new gallery consists of five different virtual exhibits to inform curious visitors about a fight for voting rights that we still experience in some ways today.

The release of this virtual gallery coincides with the Freedom Summer exhibit on display at ABHM from October 8th through November 4th, the showing of PBS’ Freedom Summer documentary at WBHSM on October 5th, ABHM Book Club on October 24th, where we will discuss Michael Emonds’ book on the same topics, Risking Everything, and with Museum Voter Registration Week(s).

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