• James Cameron (pictured above) was inspired to create ABHM when he visited the Yad VaShem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem, Israel in 1979.
  • Dr. James Cameron, who survived a lynching as a teenager in 1930, founded Americas Black Holocaust Museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1988.
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  • America's Black Holocaust Museum building 1988–2008. It is now a virtual museum. The new ABHM, which was scheduled to open fall 2019...
  • America's Black Holocaust Museum was founded in Milwaukee by James Cameron, who survived a lynching in 1930 in Marion, Indiana, when he was 16 years old.
  • After Cameron’s death in 2006, the museum struggled, closing in 2008 and then returning as an online space for education and engagement in 2012.
  • This museum explores the history of the oppression of Black people, both in America and before the first slaves were brought here.
  • The only survivor of a 1930 lynching, Cameron founded the museum in 1984, but it closed in 2006 after his passing, ending a 22-year run.
  • Americas Black Holocaust Museum was founded in 1984 by the only known survivor of a lynching, Dr. James Cameron.