Dr. Margaret Taylor Goss Burroughs (b. Nov. 1, 1917 - d. Nov. 21, 2010)

In 1961, the Ebony Museum of Negro History was founded yesteryear physician Margaret Taylor Goss Burroughs as well as other civic leaders inwards iii rooms of her South Side domicile inwards Chicago, Illinois. The museum collection would eventually motion into larger quarters inwards a fine rock construction on the grounds of Washington Park inwards Chicago. It would too last renamed every bit its electrical flow name: The DuSable Museum of African American History.


Dusable Museum of African American History
(Washington Park, Chicago, Illinois, USA)

THE EBONY MUSEUM OF NEGRO HISTORY IN CHICAGO


The Original Home of the Ebony Museum of Negro History
(3806 S. Michigan, Chicago)

Originally built inwards 1903, this Chateau-style mansion was the master copy domicile of the Chicago's South Side museum collection of Black fine art as well as memorabilia. The historic domicile located at 3806 S. Michigan avenue inwards Chicago went through a issue of incarnations inside the community. It was the Quincy Club inwards the belatedly 1930s, operated yesteryear an association of Black railroad workers who ran a boarding house, a pub as well as a soul social guild on the site.

The Quincy Club accommodated Black railroad workers operating on the City of New Orleans railroad route along the Mississippi River. Their exclusion from "white only" Chicago hotels encouraged their creating their ain community facilities. The historic domicile is located at 3806 S. Michigan Avenue inwards Chicago, Illinois.

MARGARET BURROUGHS AS ARTIST, WRITER, AND LECTURER

For several decades physician Burroughs taught fine art to Chicago students from uncomplicated to academy level. In improver to founding the DuSable Museum of African American History, Burroughs is too with the founders of the Chicago South Side Community Art Center. She has been an Active Chicago Park District board member.
Black Venus, Margaret Burroughs (Woodcut, 1957)
  
In her root book of published poetry, physician Burroughs penned what would go her near renowned verse form "What Shall I Tell My Children Who Are Black?"



Dr. Margaret Burroughs

physician Burroughs was a cultural warrior inwards Chicago. Long earlier U.S. President Barack Obama popularized the community activist role, physician Burroughs was known inwards Chicago every bit a community organizer, educator, artist, writer, social activist, as well as footing traveler. She has been seen to induce got to the street with scout inwards paw on the side of justice. Burroughs has been a frequent Black History lecturer. As a footing traveler she has visited many countries inwards Africa, the Caribbean Area as well as South America. Burroughs is a Black History Hero.


Blog Update 11/23/10: physician Margaret Burroughs died Nov 21, 2010. RIP

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