Margaret Burroughs » the dusable museum http://www.margaretburroughs.com African-American artist and writer and a co-founder of the DuSable Museum of African American History Mon, 18 May 2015 00:47:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.39 The DuSable Museum http://www.margaretburroughs.com/the-dusable-museum/ http://www.margaretburroughs.com/the-dusable-museum/#comments Mon, 05 May 2014 19:51:31 +0000 /?p=13 Margaret and her husband Charles co-founded what is now called the DuSable Museum of African American History in Chicago in 1961. The institution was originally known as the Ebony Museum of Negro History and Art and made its debut in the living room of their house at 3806 S. Michigan Avenue in the Bronzeville neighborhood […]

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]]> Margaret and her husband Charles co-founded what is now called the DuSable Museum of African American History in Chicago in 1961. The institution was originally known as the Ebony Museum of Negro History and Art and made its debut in the living room of their house at 3806 S. Michigan Avenue in the Bronzeville neighborhood on Chicago’s south side, and Taylor-Burroughs served as its executive director for the first ten years of its existence. She was proud of the institution’s grass-roots beginnings: “we’re the only one that grew out of the indigenous Black community. We weren’t started by anybody downtown; we were started by ordinary folks.” Burroughs served as Executive Director until 1984 and was then named Director Emeritus, remaining active in the museum’s operations and fundraising efforts.

The museum moved to its current location at 740 E. 56th Place in Washington Park in 1973, and today is the oldest museum of black culture in the United States. Both the current museum building, and the Burroughs’ S. Michigan Avenue home are now listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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