December 20, 2017
Don Jackson, CEO of Central City Productions and founder of the Stellar Gospel Music Awards, announced in a press conference on Dec. 6 that the National Museum of Gospel Music will be built at 34th and Indiana where the charred remains of Pilgrim Baptist Church have stood for over ten years.
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Ruins of Pilgrim Baptist Church Will Become National Museum of Gospel Music
“The light bulb came on when I was in Pilgrim and walking through the ashes over there,” said Jackson. “There is a lot of synergy, Chicago is the birth place of Gospel Music, Thomas A Dorsey is the father of gospel music, Pilgrim Baptist Church has done a great job creating this genre of Gospel Music and we do the Stellar Gospel Music Awards, and I was chairman of the DuSable Museum for some 11 years so I know a little bit about the museum industry and that was enough to get us started.”