March 14, 2018
Dr. Margaret Burroughs (pictured), founder of the DuSable Museum of African American History, worked as an art teacher in a predominately black high school. She noticed that many of her students didn’t have any understanding of black history
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In 1961 Dr. Margaret Burroughs and her husband founded the Ebony Museum for Negro History on the first floor of their home. The museum eventually grew out of their home at 3806 S. Michigan Ave. and in 1973 they moved their collection to Washington Park and became the DuSable Museum of African American History.