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Celebration set to honor late founder of America’s Black Holocaust Museum

April 5, 2018

A celebration of the life of James Cameron, founder of America’s Black Holocaust Museum and the only known survivor of a lynching, will be held on Thursday, April 12, at the Haggerty Museum of Art.

The event, “Connecting Arts and Community Voices in Celebration of Dr. James Cameron,” will include networking from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m., a program at 6 p.m. and a closing at 7:45 p.m. The event is open to the public.

In his book, A Time of Terror: A Survivor’s Story, Cameron recounted when he and two other black teenagers were lynched in 1930. Despite having the rope around his neck, an individual in the crowd came to his defense and Cameron was saved, but was tried and convicted as an accessory to the murder that incited the lynching. He spent five years writing his book while in prison, and was pardoned more than 60 years later in 1993 by Indiana Gov. Evan Bayh and the Indiana Parole Board.

Cameron’s lifework focused on raising Americans’ consciousness and conscience about lynching, retelling his story many times, including on “Larry King Live,” “The Oprah Winfrey Show” and “The 700 Club.”

In 1999, Cameron received an honorary doctoral degree from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

As an adult, Cameron became a devout Catholic. He died at the age of 92 in 2006. Hundreds of people packed Milwaukee’s Cathedral of St. John to pay tribute to him, with U.S. Rep. Gwendolyn Moore (D-Wis.) giving one of the eulogies.

America’s Black Holocaust Museum opened on Milwaukee’s North Side in 1994, featuring many exhibits on slavery, lynchings and Jim Crow laws. It closed in 2008, but the Dr. James Cameron Legacy Foundation, Inc., plans to open a new physical museum at 411 W. North Ave. later this year. The new museum will feature history exhibits, interactive displays, guided tours, traveling exhibits, a museum shop, café and gallery and a community events space.

The museum’s exhibits are online at abhmuseum.org.

The event is sponsored by the Haggerty Museum of Art, Future Milwaukee and Marquette University’s Center for Urban Research, Teaching and Outreach. It will include performances by artists from Stillwaters Collective.

 

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