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Launched online in December 2011, this is, we believe, the first memorial to remember the many victims of lynching in the United States. Here we gather their life stories, say their names, and note where and when these thousands of men, women and children were terrorized and murdered.
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Dr. James Cameron, who survived a lynching as a teenager in 1930, founded America’s Black Holocaust Museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1988. He dedicated his entire life to helping America realize its promise of liberty and justice for all. An early civil rights activist, he fought racial segregation in 1940s Indiana.
After moving to Milwaukee, Cameron published a memoir about his lynching and coming of age during the Jim Crow era. He traveled the country educating audiences at high schools, colleges, and other venues about the Black Holocaust as an integral part of US history, seen through the lens of these personal experiences.
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“Griot” (pronounced GREE-oh) is the French name given to the oral historians of West Africa. Traditionally griots travel from city to city and village to village as living newspapers, carrying in their heads an incredible store of local history and current events. They pass on their knowledge of history by singing traditional songs, which they must recite accurately, without errors or deviations. Like rappers, they also make up songs as they go to share current events, gossip, political commentary and satire.
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By Phillip Lewis, The Huffington Post When Anthony Fykes and Robert Wright met, they immediately connected through their love for movies. But the pair never imagined that a shared passion…
Read More >At 16 years of age James Cameron said he escaped being lynched by divine intervention. He dedicated his life to civil rights for black people and went on to found the America’s Black Holocaust Museum.
Read More >White Republican legislators in Wisconsin continue to dictate who is worth of honor during Black History Month. Colin Kaepernick is deemed too controversial, due to his kneeling during the National Anthem.
Read More >Johns Hopkins recently named a building after Henrietta Lacks, a young African-American mother whose cells were taken and used without her or her family’s permission. Johns Hopkins is the medical center where she was treated and where her cells were taken. Henrietta’s cells continue to drive research all over the world.
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