Dr. Margaret Taylor Goss Burroughs: Chicago's Cultural Maverick Too The Dusable Museum Of African American History

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw5kD23agnA33izD6XLGFGw9Q9QPCLiGSpbZ2Zl4OsgiRpAgmn5k0jYAPOd84K4dze2ZmcNO-nOr_vxhhUsM3F6wZD92_xY6-ZnKW96fXHDfmz4eoP8xVkLtUVN42P86Uy_egEYPczOCo/s1600-h/margaret+burroughs.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" height="172" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw5kD23agnA33izD6XLGFGw9Q9QPCLiGSpbZ2Zl4OsgiRpAgmn5k0jYAPOd84K4dze2ZmcNO-nOr_vxhhUsM3F6wZD92_xY6-ZnKW96fXHDfmz4eoP8xVkLtUVN42P86Uy_egEYPczOCo/s200/margaret+burroughs.jpg" width="200" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Dr. Margaret Taylor Goss Burroughs (b. </span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Nov. 1, 1917 - d. Nov. 21, 2010)</b></span></span></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> 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.</div> <br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgammrouQs_oL06FitpkTdWI8IN1lvgrM0IZgoRJpBHADYbKrsiJ49kC-TNYf8Zn-Y4_H7Khet5_ixaQoS5Jj3UQmdwO1z12uzEL5m-_1SrHnNOYyDMf4j2NLnbpGWRYFXmYuPvnSCXD3I/s1600-h/dusable+museum+of+african+american+history.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgammrouQs_oL06FitpkTdWI8IN1lvgrM0IZgoRJpBHADYbKrsiJ49kC-TNYf8Zn-Y4_H7Khet5_ixaQoS5Jj3UQmdwO1z12uzEL5m-_1SrHnNOYyDMf4j2NLnbpGWRYFXmYuPvnSCXD3I/s320/dusable+museum+of+african+american+history.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Dusable Museum of African American History</span></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Washington Park, Chicago, Illinois, USA)</span></div> <br /> <b>THE EBONY MUSEUM OF NEGRO HISTORY IN CHICAGO</b><br /> <br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5wwuO_n3ga9JeBhLvwh-Q6_uweuklWdqunmaE1aCbolmLyHOPwgVgRZJ0-AahUZLHbVrqA3dXni2uki6291BxvVHlyrRYQn_J5tJv2veVIP-QR3bg59hNzT4JHaTsMHCjLfbgtJdj2to/s1600-h/Black+Museum.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5wwuO_n3ga9JeBhLvwh-Q6_uweuklWdqunmaE1aCbolmLyHOPwgVgRZJ0-AahUZLHbVrqA3dXni2uki6291BxvVHlyrRYQn_J5tJv2veVIP-QR3bg59hNzT4JHaTsMHCjLfbgtJdj2to/s320/Black+Museum.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>The Original Home of the Ebony Museum of Negro History</b></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(3806 S. Michigan, Chicago)</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> 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. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> 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.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>MARGARET BURROUGHS AS ARTIST, WRITER, AND LECTURER</b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> 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 <a href="https://conaircurlingiron.blogspot.com//search?q=south-side-community-art-center-of" target="_blank">Chicago South Side Community Art Center</a>. She has been an Active Chicago Park District board member.</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdqZz7RJXNtmEcib9WILrHXGWot2KZSqi_yBZJuUE4Fsf43PW4ONYFUOh7cb29J3eeyc1WvoKq6GhyphenhyphenFyd1LvfjEYQjLtl1NhNB9XepKHQopWiag8UUdOLWZYO1kIT3O53_80MTP_xoYU8/s320/Margaret+Burroughs+Black+Venus.jpg" /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Black Venus, Margaret Burroughs (Woodcut, 1957)</span></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"></span>  </div> 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?"<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhelv0BkS2nkdVDFmpJxy2AN-PWcMWVABsWOyRIYUL9H3dLS8k4xYuebIua9uagcB1sHuHnnCkGyAY_qxE26hhoYy8RCkuAYK9VkmDVw66WKql6zMpm1BvUVkkMVSnt2Qyt4zjup_zfMHQ/s1600-h/Margaret+Burroughs.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhelv0BkS2nkdVDFmpJxy2AN-PWcMWVABsWOyRIYUL9H3dLS8k4xYuebIua9uagcB1sHuHnnCkGyAY_qxE26hhoYy8RCkuAYK9VkmDVw66WKql6zMpm1BvUVkkMVSnt2Qyt4zjup_zfMHQ/s320/Margaret+Burroughs.jpg" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit0VM977IJYeeYsPjCKCBKPuDw7btnw3dsEUI_gEWgEPxSqmBOBT2cYF4yY0c81zRRNj0x2gjjGFWPay8jOkeLH602d8QUmn9xmhVpcFTbbmGhHYy2V8C4RGtELZ_O4B6sLh4TW7AJ2I8/s1600-h/dr+margaret+burroughs.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit0VM977IJYeeYsPjCKCBKPuDw7btnw3dsEUI_gEWgEPxSqmBOBT2cYF4yY0c81zRRNj0x2gjjGFWPay8jOkeLH602d8QUmn9xmhVpcFTbbmGhHYy2V8C4RGtELZ_O4B6sLh4TW7AJ2I8/s320/dr+margaret+burroughs.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b>Dr. Margaret Burroughs</b></div> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> 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.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /> <div align="center"> <object height="244" width="325"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/GU3Ca32htmI&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/GU3Ca32htmI&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="325" height="244"></embed></object></div> <br /> Blog Update 11/23/10: physician Margaret Burroughs died Nov 21, 2010. RIP</div> </div>

Dr. Margaret Taylor Goss Burroughs: Chicago's Cultural Maverick Too The Dusable Museum Of African American History

Dr. Margaret Taylor Goss Burroughs (b.  Nov. 1, 1917 - d. Nov. 21, 2010) In 1961, the Ebony Museum of Negro History was founded yest...

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Etta Moten Barnett: African American Vocalist Too Actress

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPe4iab4CyCG3l4CSIEmCxjzUSj7SHSsLxlxXkrO8PmXrxuulndS1S9cATlwufW35Wl7y7Wt7SCsg5GR7nOnX0hTzShDkZpbCkFZxVCUOGDQdw1HUuQEKtFI7bpBvL5Uj51a8yX-IXPk4/s1600-h/Etta_Moten_Barnett.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPe4iab4CyCG3l4CSIEmCxjzUSj7SHSsLxlxXkrO8PmXrxuulndS1S9cATlwufW35Wl7y7Wt7SCsg5GR7nOnX0hTzShDkZpbCkFZxVCUOGDQdw1HUuQEKtFI7bpBvL5Uj51a8yX-IXPk4/s200/Etta_Moten_Barnett.jpg" width="160" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: Etta Moten Barnett </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">(b. Nov. 5, 1901 – d. Jan. 2, 2004)</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">i</span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">n Gershwin's </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Porgy in addition to Bess</span></span></i></b></div><br /> <i>Etta Moten Barnett has been a tireless pioneer inwards her career every bit a musical performer, actress, in addition to community activist.</i> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>THE EARLY LIFE OF ETTA MOTEN BARNETT</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Etta Moten Barnett was born inwards Weimer, Texas on Nov 5, 1901. The alone kid of Rev. Freeman F. Moten, an African Methodist Episcopal minister, and schoolhouse instructor Ida Moten, she remembers her childhood fondly every bit a fourth dimension of singing amongst the choir inwards her father's church. It was at Paul Quinn College inwards Texas that the lineament of her singing vocalisation was rootage rewarded amongst an educational scholarship. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Moten went on to attend Western University, an Historically Black University (HBU) in Kansas. Her professional person singing career took off i time she joined the Jackson Jubilee Singers and went on to sing amongst the renowned Eva Jessye Choir.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>EARLY BLACK ACTRESSES</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Moten was discovered every bit an actress past times a talent lookout for the 1931 Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers classic moving-picture exhibit <i>Flying</i> <i>Down to Rio</i>. She is best remembered, however, for her role every bit the incarnate heroine Bess inwards the master copy George Gershwin production of the pop musical <i>Porgy in addition to Bess</i>. Gershwin chose Eva Jessye every bit the choral managing director for the 1935 opera production of <i>Porgy in addition to Bess</i>. </div><br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7poDdIc2jA4NzarZ5LwxXLX2AL36aAO64110R8DKinpdbUpepn1ySEOg-5IO4J3obMiOT906-497CCZBhcUV8u4td1P3CcoREgTOIfaLWpwe7vJC7ZzMMDm3UHsyuZ0ZrUK-Azpx2TVM/s1600-h/Porgyandbess.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7poDdIc2jA4NzarZ5LwxXLX2AL36aAO64110R8DKinpdbUpepn1ySEOg-5IO4J3obMiOT906-497CCZBhcUV8u4td1P3CcoREgTOIfaLWpwe7vJC7ZzMMDm3UHsyuZ0ZrUK-Azpx2TVM/s320/Porgyandbess.gif" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: 1935 Cast of <i>Porgy in addition to Bess</i></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">(photographer Richard Tucker. Oct. 10, 1935. </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Courtesy of the Library of Congress)</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">A pioneering Black musical performer, Etta Moten Barnett broke the cinema industry's colouring fabric barrier every bit the rootage Black performer to play in a film role that was non a domestic role, when she performed inwards <i>The Gold Diggers</i> inwards 1933. </div><br /> <div align="center"><object height="244" width="325"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/3jIofWwupLA&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/3jIofWwupLA&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="325" height="244"></embed></object></div><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;">As a Chicago resident, Moten was active inwards promoting the arts through the South Side Community Art Center in addition to DuSable Museum of African American History. Moten was appointed past times the U.S. federal regime every bit a cultural ambassador to 10 African countries. In shaped this role every bit an chance to led cultural telephone commutation missions betwixt African Americans in addition to Africans. Moten was an active fellow member of the National Council of Negro Women inwards Chicago. </div><br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuazKqdQZChES361u87Ds3WtXNpLz0uOYtMYIgsDwz0kshKZUYwhO7xuvDJwBaYeZGFDC3jye04PfUPPB-xuh_T5ooXuiuylQJIxrtcc_skV1l7QizvQLIMowyLmaCEZ7NJHJSPqqOhpE/s1600-h/3619+King+Drive.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuazKqdQZChES361u87Ds3WtXNpLz0uOYtMYIgsDwz0kshKZUYwhO7xuvDJwBaYeZGFDC3jye04PfUPPB-xuh_T5ooXuiuylQJIxrtcc_skV1l7QizvQLIMowyLmaCEZ7NJHJSPqqOhpE/s320/3619+King+Drive.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Photo: The belatedly Etta Moten Barnett's domicile inwards Chicago </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>3619 S. Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive</b></div><br /> <i><br /> </i></div>

Etta Moten Barnett: African American Vocalist Too Actress

Photo: Etta Moten Barnett  (b. Nov. 5, 1901 – d. Jan. 2, 2004)   i n Gershwin's Porgy in addition to Bess Etta Moten Barnett has been a...

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The Person Of Bronzeville: The Regal, Companionship Delisa Together With The Blues Exhibit

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEVREI7acS5PVgLNrZCzB9c5SqLfeCbb8JEWsUwhsHxyhP2oXuC69JOOld7F97HzieLQV-m1jS3pLqbmT-zf4HJgx36rbQBoOTqNbjAKQsvRAo2W9CfZvZgBq32X1tJMuoJe8sL8n3ZzY/s1600/Blues+Legends.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEVREI7acS5PVgLNrZCzB9c5SqLfeCbb8JEWsUwhsHxyhP2oXuC69JOOld7F97HzieLQV-m1jS3pLqbmT-zf4HJgx36rbQBoOTqNbjAKQsvRAo2W9CfZvZgBq32X1tJMuoJe8sL8n3ZzY/s320/Blues+Legends.jpg" wt="true" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /> </div>The DuSable Museum of African American History presents the exhibition “The Soul of Bronzeville: The Regal, Club DeLisa as well as The Blues." Through instruments, master copy photographs, personal memorabilia, concert collectibles, music as well as moving footage, this exhibition, curated yesteryear Gregg Parker, salutes Chicago every bit the habitation of many legendary Blues musicians. The demo runs through June 27, 2010 at the DuSable Museum inward Chicago, Illinois (<a href="http://www.dusablemuseum.org/">http://www.dusablemuseum.org/</a>).</div>

The Person Of Bronzeville: The Regal, Companionship Delisa Together With The Blues Exhibit

The DuSable Museum of African American History presents the exhibition “The Soul of Bronzeville: The Regal, Club DeLisa as well as The Blue...

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