11/01/2024
Celebrating the birthday of the founder of The DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center - Dr. Margaret Burroughs!
Living In Her Legacy: Celebration of the Life and Activism of Dr. Margaret Burroughs. Film screening and discussion with special guest Professor Haki Madhubuti!
November 1, 2024 @ 6p.m.
The DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center
740 E. 56th Place, Chicago, IL 60637
Dr. Margaret T. Burroughs has a cemented a legacy as an educator, activist, and artist who leaves an indelible mark upon society for generations to come. Born in Louisiana, Dr. Burroughs' family moved to Chicago during the first Great Migration when she was a young girl. Growing up she became very active within the African American community. Heavily involved with Chicago’s Black Renaissance Movement during the thirties, she would go on to become one of the founders of Bronzeville’s Southside Community Arts Center in 1939. Partially funded by then President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s, “New Deal” WPA (Work Projects Administration), First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt would attend the 1940 dedication ceremony of the center. In 1961, she would be the principal founder of one of the first Black History museums in the country, The Ebony Museum of Negro History and Art, in the living room of her house, also located on the Southside of Chicago. The museum would later become The DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center.
