DuSable Museum

The Chicago-based DuSable Museum of African American History is committed to the study and preservation of African-American history, culture, and art. Margaret Taylor-Burroughs, her husband Charles Burroughs, Gerard Lew, Eugene Feldman, Bernard Goss, Marian M. Hadley, and others created it in 1961. They founded the museum to showcase black culture, which was previously ignored by most museums and academic institutions. The Smithsonian Institution is affiliated with the museum.

The new wing houses a permanent display of Washington that includes mementos, personal items, and highlights from his political career. The museum also acts as the principal tribute to du Sable in the city. The desk of activist Ida B. Wells, the violin of poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, and the Charles Dawson Papers are among the highlights of the collection. The museum features 13,000 items, books, pictures, art pieces, and mementos in its collection. The majority of the DuSable collection came from private donors. It houses slave-era antiquities from the United States, nineteenth- and twentieth-century items, and archive papers, notably the journals of sea explorer Captain Harry Dean.

Location: 740 E 56th Pl, Chicago, IL 60637

Website: dusablemuseum.org