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	DuSable Museum
		The DuSable Museum of African American History is devoted to the history, art, and culture of the African diaspora.
		A pioneer among a group of fl cultural museums that emerged during the civil rights movement of the mid-twentieth century, it began as the Ebony Museum, and then the Museum of Negro History and Art.
		The museum's first site was in the home of its founders, artist/educator Margaret Goss Burroughs and her husband Charles Burroughs, whose historic South Side mansion had once been a boardinghouse for African American railroad workers.
	www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/398.html (524 words)

	African American Museums, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Resource Guide
		The August Wilson Center for African American Culture (formerly known as the African American Cultural Center of Greater Pittsburgh) is a not-for-profit organization that presents performing, visual and education programs that celebrate the contributions of African Americans within the region and the impact of cultural expression from Africa to the African Diaspora.
		Founded in 1961, the first and oldest Black American museum in the United States, the DuSable Museum of African American History is dedicated to the collection, documentation, preservation, interpretation and dissemination of the history and culture of Americans of African descent and Africans throughout the Diaspora.
		The Museum of Afro American History (MAAH) is a not-for-profit history institution dedicated to preserving, conserving and accurately interpreting the contributions of African Americans during the colonial period in New England.
	www.clpgh.org /subject/afroamericans/museums.html (545 words)

	New Direction For Cleveland's African American Museum
		That's really what we said to the museum is take this initial plan and go back and really look at what are the priorities, how things may be phased in over a period of time.
		Compare that to 350 members of the African American Museum in Cleveland and a building that was purchased for a dollar from the Cleveland Public Library in the late 80's.
		She hopes to host a County Commissioner's meeting at the museum this spring and says an architect is already working on plans for a renovation and expansion.
	www.wcpn.org /news/2003/01-03/0211museum.html (947 words)

	Museum Links
		DuSable Museum of African American History - a longstanding institution dedicated to emphasizing the contributions African Americans have made to world history and American history, life, and culture.
		Museum of Afro-American History Boston - celebrates the contributions of African Americans during the colonial period in New England.
		Museums at 18th and Vine - links to the Kansas City Jazz Museum and the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, who with the Black Archives are located in the Historic 18th and Vine District of Kansas City, Missouri.
	www.blackarchives.org /links/museums.htm (220 words)

	History - Graduate - African Diaspora and African American History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Northwestern is emerging as a leading center for graduate study of the African Diaspora and African American history.
		The History Department, African American Studies, and African Studies have together assembled an outstanding roster of distinguished senior scholars and innovative young scholars working on all aspects of the fl diaspora.
		In 2004-05, Northwestern will be inaugurating a new Center for African American History that will support faculty and graduate student research and sponsor lectures, symposia, and other events.
	www.history.northwestern.edu /graduate/afrdiasp-afam.htm (364 words)

	Tanqueray salutes the DuSable Museum - DuSable Museum of African-American History, Chicago, Illinois - includes related ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		As the nation's oldest independent repository of Black history and culture, the museum is a window on the African Diaspora.
		Born at the apex of the Civil Rights Movement and sustained by benefactors who refuse to accept a Eurocentric history, the museum strives to educate, illuminate and clarify the role of African-Americans in history.
		The museum views itself as a model for museums of the 21st century by continuing to document the Black presence and by developing new methodologies for preserving the African dimensions of American life.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1077/is_n4_v48/ai_13365349 (908 words)

	DuSable Museum of African American History
		Chicago, IL (2 November 2007) DuSable Museum of African American History is currently accepting applications for a Director of Development.
		A dynamic, growing and successful cultural institution located in Chicago, IL, DuSable Museum seeks an experienced fund-raising professional to manage and lead a comprehensive development program including a capital campaign.
		at the DuSable Museum of African American History which is located at 740 East 56th Place (57th Street at South Cottage Grove Avenue) in Chicago=s Washington Park.
	www.dusablemuseum.org (184 words)

	AFRICAN AMERICAN RESOURCES
		For example, the "back-to-Africa" movement represented by the American Colonization Society is vigorously opposed by abolitionists, and the movement of fls to the North is documented by the writers and artists who participated in federal projects of the 1930s.
		One of the oldest and best African American megasites that has as its purpose the collection of all relevant websites on topics such as education, art and entertainment, the diaspora, history, student and professional organizations, and literature.
		Coverage for the periodical index is 1989 to the present; African American core scholarly journals and important leisure publications are the focus of the index.
	www.strategenius.org /african_american_resources.htm (3846 words)

	Sickle Cell Anemia, The History Behind The Disease: A Special Health Program at DuSable Museum, Saturday, Sept. 9
		On Saturday, September 9th at 10:00 AM the DuSable Museum of African American History, The University of Chicago Hospitals and The Sickle Cell Disease Association of Illinois will present a free program focused on the migration and evolution of the disease, daily coping mechanisms and current research.
		This special interactive morning health program provides a unique look at the history of the disease and an opportunity for those coping with the disease and their families to have their questions answered by medical and health care leaders.
		The DuSable Museum of African American History, one of the oldest institutions of its kind in the country, has been dedicated to the collection, preservation, interpretation and dissemination of the history and culture of Africans and Americans of African descent for 45 years.
	www.prweb.com /releases/sickle/cell/prweb434138.htm (826 words)

	DuSable Museum of African American History
		As the first and oldest Black American museum in the United States, the DuSable Museum of African American History is dedicated to the collection, documentation, preservation, interpretation and dissemination of the history and culture of Americans of African descent and Africans throughout the Diaspora.
		The museum is named after Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable, a fur trader of African descent who was the first permanent settler in Chicago.
		DuSable Treasures showcases selected paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture that span well over one hundred years of the African American experience in the visual arts.
	www.museumsandpublicschools.org /Partners/dusable.html (412 words)

	Black History Pages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The African American Museum was founded for the preservation and dissemination of informaiton regarding the contributions of individuals of African descent.
		Founded in 1976, in celebration of the U.S. Bicentennial, The African American Museum in Philadelphia (AAMP) is dedicated to collecting preserving and interpreting the material and intellectual culture of African Americans in Philadelphia, the Delaware Valley, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the Americas.
		The Museum of African American History in Detroit, Michigan is dedicated to the preservation and presentation of African and African American history and culture.
	blackhistorypages.com /Museums (1076 words)

	Paint Magazine
		The DuSable Museum of African American History, is the oldest independent institution of its kind in the country dedicated to the collection, preservation, interpretation and dissemination of the history and culture of Americans of African descent.
		Through exhibitions, archives and programs, DuSable Museum emphasizes the experiences of Africans in America and throughout the Diaspora and their contributions to American and world history and culture.
		In 1984, the DuSable Museum’s curator, the late, Ramon Price, devised a fresh new format for the art festival by instituting the Purchase Award Program whereby works judged outstanding are purchased for the museum by a panel of judges.
	www.octobergallery.com /paintmagazine/pages/mg_dusable.html (387 words)

	DuSable Museum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The DuSable Museum of African American History is the first and oldest museum dedicated to the study and conservation of African American history, culture, and art.
		In 1968, the museum was renamed for Jean-Baptiste Pointe du Sable, a Haitian fur trader and the first non-Native-American permanent settler in Chicago.
		In 1993, the museum expanded with a new wing bearing the name of the late Mayor Harold Washington, the first African American mayor of Chicago.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/DuSable_Museum (188 words)

	Museum Studies, The Art Institute's Journal
		Coppin’s contribution to this project was a series of images related to openings at various galleries and institutions in Chicago devoted to African American art and culture.
		The DuSable Museum was founded in 1961 by Margaret Taylor Goss Burroughs (see no. 15) and her husband, Charles, and named after Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable, an eighteenth-century explorer of African descent who founded the first non-Indian settlement in Chicago.
		The museum has become the center for a wide range of activities celebrating the achievements of African Americans and plays an integral part in the cultural life of Chicago’s South Side.
	www.artic.edu /webspaces/museumstudies/ms242/portfolio27.shtml (427 words)

	DuSable Museum of African-American History \| Museum/Attraction Review \| Chicago \| Frommers.com
		The DuSable Museum is a repository of the history, art, and artifacts pertaining to the African-American experience and culture.
		In 1973, as a result of a community-based campaign, the museum took up residence in its present building (a former parks administration facility and police lockup) on the eastern edge of Washington Park.
		The museum also has a gift shop, a research library, and an extensive program of community-related events, such as a jazz and blues music series, poetry readings, film screenings, and other cultural events, all presented in a 466-seat auditorium.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/chicago/A19412.html (394 words)

	Illinois - Teaching American History 2004 Grants Abstracts
		In cooperation with the Newberry Library, Chicago Historical Society, Chicago Metro History Education Center, Constitutional Rights Foundation Chicago, and DuSable Museum of African American History, the project immerses 10th grade American History teachers in a series of professional development activities designed to increase teaching skills and content knowledge.
		Rockford Public Schools, Northern Illinois University, Rock Valley College, Rockford College, Midway Village and Museum Center, Burpee Museum, and Rockford Park District-Atwood Center are forming a partnership to raise student achievement by improving teachers' knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of traditional American history through curriculum and assessment development and modeling of engaging teaching strategies.
		Content covers early and colonial history; American Revolution and early national period; national expansion; Civil War and Reconstruction; Industrial U.S.; U.S. emergence as a world power; prosperity; the Depression; New Deal and World War II; post-war and the Cold War; and contemporary U.S. from 1968 to the present.
	www.ed.gov /programs/teachinghistory/2004tahabstracts/il.html (394 words)

	African American History Spotlight
		4, 1913, Tuskegee, Ala., U.S.), fl American civil rights activist whose refusal to relinquish her seat on a public bus to a white man precipitated the 1955 Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott, recognized as the spark that ignited the U.S. Civil Rights Movement.
		Warm, feisty, and intelligent, the Delany sisters speak their mind in a book that is at once a vital historical record and a moving portrait of two remarkable women who continued to love, laugh, and embrace life after over 100 years of living side by side.
		The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit, Michigan established in 1965 by Dr. Charles Wright is a 120,000 square foot resource center which preserves and educates the public on the history, life and culture of African Americans.
	www.cptimeonline.com /cp_history_files/cp_history.htm (519 words)

	Chicago Museums of Art, Science, History, Culture and Industry
		The Elgin Public Museum of Natural History and Anthropology is the oldest structure in the State of Illinois that was originally constructed to house a museum and still serves that purpose today.
		The National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame (NIASHF) is a museum and educational institution dedicated to preserving and promoting the heritage, culture and history of Italian Americans who have made significant contributions to sports and society.
		The Peace Museum is actively dedicated to exploring creative, nonviolent solutions to social issues through education, community involvement, and exhibitions chronicling local, national and international efforts to attain peace.
	www.chicagotraveler.com /chicago_museums.htm (1186 words)

	Center for African-American History (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Defining African American history in the broadest possible terms with a commitment to Diasporic scholarship, CAAH calls upon a fine cadre of scholars who specialize in the histories of the U.S., Latin America, West Africa, and the Caribbean.
		The Center is an outgrowth of the great strides that the departments of African American Studies and History have made in recruiting prominent new faculty to enhance the university's longstanding strength in African History, and the study of the African Diaspora in the Americas.
		We believe that there are a number of reasons why the Center for African American History is poised to become one of the nation's leading Centers for the study and teaching of African American history.
	www.wcas.northwestern.edu.cob-web.org:8888 /caah (610 words)

	Museum Jobs - Full Job Details - Print Out (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Museum is in the midst of a $25 million expansion that will provide additional space for exhibitions, collections, interactive learning areas and an expanded Museum store and dining facilities.
		The ideal candidate will possess at least 6 years progressive experience in exhibition development and collections management with significant supervisory experience of museum staff, a broad knowledge of African, African American, and Chicago history, and experience working with the academic community.
		An advanced degree in history or African American Art is required.
	www.museumjobs.com /printjobdetails.php?JobID=3431 (231 words)

	DuSable Museum of African-American History Presents Internationally Acclaimed Award-Winning Baritone Robert Sims in a ...
		He is highly regarded for his "moving" and "authentic" interpretations of African American spirituals, and has given recitals of spirituals throughout the United States, Europe and Asia.
		He made his Goodman Theater debut under the direction of Frank Galati, and sang the role of Dr. Malatesta in Don Pasquale with Opera Carolina, and was seen in Romeo et Juliette and Die Zauberflote with Tri-Cities Opera.
		Sims is featured on three CDs produced by Canti Classics: Soul of Singer, Robert Sims sings African American Folk-Songs, Sims Sings Copland and Spirituals, and Three Generations featuring William Warfield and Benjamin Matthews.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/01-19-2004/0002091474&EDATE= (808 words)

	Dusable Museum Of African American History - Chicago, IL - Insider Pages: Museums, Auto Parts, Amusement Parks
		It's an interesting place that highlights the achievements of African Americans such as Annie Malone, and shows off a lot of artwork too.
		This museum is a nice change from the bigger museums in the city.
		I then happened to live on the same block where she began collecting various art pieces before the DuSable Museum was established.
	www.insiderpages.com /b/3713877575 (198 words)

	Celebrate Black History Month at the DuSable Museum
		CHICAGO -- The DuSable Museum of African American History will celebrate Black History Month with an assortment of exciting exhibitions, educational activities and programs.
		All activities will take place at the Museum which is located at 740 East 56th Place (57th Street at South Cottage Grove Avenue) in Chicago's Washington Park.
		Admission to the DuSable Museum is $3 for adults, $2 for all students and $1 for children ages 6 through 12.
	www.filmmakers.com /news/events/printer_50.shtml (620 words)

	Dusable Mus. Of African American History in Chicago (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Of African American History can be found at 740 East 56th Place in Chicago.
		As one of the city's Museum/ Attraction venues, it can be compared to other venues such as Museum Of Broadcast Communications, Buckingham Fountain, Chicago Historical Society, among others.
		Attractions such as Spertus Museum Of Judaica, Marina City, Goodman Theatre, are all in the same area as Dusable Mus.
	chicago.hotelprofessor.com.cob-web.org:8888 /travel-guide/dusable-mus-of-african-american-history.html (88 words)

	Planning Your Visit to The Field Museum
		The Museums in the Park Museums in the Park (MIP) is an association of nine Chicago-area museums located on Chicago Park District property.
		These museums play a significant role in making tourism the number one growing industry in Illinois, which adds nearly to $21 billion to the state economy.
		These museum are: The Adler Planetarium Astronomy Museum, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, The Chicago Historical Society, The DuSable Museum of African American History, The Field Museum, The Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, The Museum of Science and Industry and the John G. Shedd Aquarium.
	www.fieldmuseum.org /plan_visit/spanish_info.htm (412 words)

	Dusable Museum African American History Chicago Information Guide (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Named for Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable, a Black fur trader and the first outsider to settle in the 1770s in what later became the Chicago-area, the DuSable Museum of African-American History is said to be among the country's 10 most notable collections of paintings, drawings, and sculpture by African-American artists.
		The museum traces its roots back to 1961, when Dr. Margaret Goss Burroughs founded it in her home with a ten-dollar charter.
		The DuSable Museum of African-American History is the nation's oldest, non-profit institution devoted to the collection, preservation, interpretation, and dissemination of African and African-American history and culture.
	chicago.citytravelguide.com.cob-web.org:8888 /chicago/dusable-mus-afr-am-hist.htm (283 words)

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