Welcome to ABHM! - America's Black Holocaust Museum
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Welcome to ABHM! - America's Black Holocaust Museum
Skip to content
Click for new, virtual exhibit - Picturing Black History in Milwaukee & Beyond
ABHM
America's Black Holocaust Museum
Bringing Our History to Light
Thank you for visiting our Virtual Museum!
This is more than a website: it's a 3500+ page
Virtual
Museum
!
So what can you do here?
Here are just a few ideas:
• Discover seldom-told stories in our
Online
History Galleries
.
• Plan your
in-person
visit
to our On-Site museum's galleries.
• Find out what the
only known survivor of a US lynching
did with the rest of his long life.
• Learn about present and past challenges facing the African American community in our
Breaking News blog
.
• Take the
pledge to
be a Freedom Lover
and post your photo and/or name on our Roll Call Wall.
•
Contribute
to ABHM's work of education, reconciliation, and healing.
•
Become a
Member
of the Museum!
ABHM is a one-of-a-kind
historical
and
memorial
museum
about the
Black Holocaust in America
.
History museums
study, exhibit, and interpret history.
Memorial museums
explain and commemorate past events of mass suffering.
Over the last 40 years, people around the world have created memorial museums to help their countries and communities make sense of and draw redemptive lessons from terrible periods of man’s inhumanity to man.
James Cameron (pictured above) was inspired to create ABHM when he visited the Yad VaShem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem, Israel in 1979. Despite surviving a 1930 lynching in which two other teenagers were killed, Dr. Cameron steadfastly maintained his faith in the moral framework of liberty and justice for all embodied in the USA’s founding documents.
Peter Pierceall of Centralia IL, USA, writes:
"Excellent website galleries. I'm a 68 year old white male
and I can unequivocally say
I learned more history of the black experience than I received
i
n all my years of schooling.
I believe it to be essential education."
Learn More >
ABHM Hours of Operation
Door of No Return exhibit at ABHM. photo credit: MKE Magazine, Jarvis Lawson
Plan Your Visit
!
Come see o
ur museum’s new facility and exhibits encompassing over 400 years of history.
OPEN -
Tuesday-Thursday: 10am-5pm
Friday: 10am-3pm
Saturday: 10am-3pm
CLOSED -
Sunday & Mondays
For more information,
please call our office at
(414) 209-3640
or write us at
Contact
.
To receive quarterly updates of our events, please
Join Our Mailing List
.
ABHM Book Club
ABHM Book Club:
Poems on Various Subjects
by Phillis Wheatley
We will discuss
Poems on Various Subjects
by Phillis Wheatley on
April 25th at 1:30 PM virtually via Zoom, and in person at ABHM
.
Published in 1773,
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
introduced the world to Phillis Wheatley, the first African American to publish a book. Written while enslaved, her 39 poems blend neoclassical form with devotional, elegiac, and heroic-couplet verse, exploring Christianity, morality, and freedom. The London publication, with verification of her authorship, challenged ideas of Black inferiority and established Wheatley as a literary pioneer and enduring cultural figure.
REGISTER HERE
Featured Event
A Ticketed Event with
Imani Perry at ABHM
Boswell Book Company, America’s Black Holocaust Museum, and Niche Book Bar present a ticketed evening with National Book Award–winning author Imani Perry at ABHM on April 6th. Celebrating the paperback release of
Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People
, Perry explores the cultural, historical, and emotional power of the color blue in Black life. She will be joined in conversation by book and culture influencer Cree Myles. Tickets are $10 ($5 for ABHM members); admission only. Books available for purchase.
REGISTER
A Time of Terror: A Survivor’s Story by Dr. James Cameron
A Time of Terror: A Survivor's Story
The award-winning, expanded third edition of Dr. James Cameron’s memoir
"This forceful and absorbing tale sweeps the reader through a wide range of emotions. The narrative is at once thrilling and unnerving–and interspersed with humor and philosophical reflections on humanity's predicament. For incisive insights into the viciousness of white racism under Jim Crow–and the depths of the human spirit required to resist it, look no further. Cameron's memoir is an inspired meditation on individual human endeavor, comparable to the trials and tribulations of Richard Wright's Bigger Thomas, but with an uplifting ending."
- Dr. Stephen Small, educator and author
Click here to learn more
about the book, read excerpts, and place bulk orders.
To buy an individual copy, please click
here
.
Be a Member!
Become a member today!
Your membership supports the museum's educational programming and the legacy of museum founder Dr. James Cameron.
Membership benefits for the year include:
Free admission to our thought-provoking exhibits
$2 off the admission for additional friends and family
15% off museum merchandise
E-newsletter with updates on what is happening at ABHM
Early notification and registration access for events and programs
Membership Levels:
Individual $30 (full benefits for 1 adult)
Partner $50 (Full membership benefits for 2 adults)
Family $70 (Full membership for 2 adults and their children or grandchildren, 17 years & under within the same household)
Click here to sign up!
Space Rental
Community groups and other organizations are welcome to rent our Community Room (including a/v equipment and kitchen) for events. Please email
admin@abhmuseum.org
for more information and to make arrangements
.
Tour Request
America's Black Holocaust Museum is happy to offer tours for classes and other groups who want to visit our physical museum.
Groups of 10 or more can also request a guided tour.
Guided by Griot
(docent)
:
$10/person
(You must have 10 or more in your group.)
Discounted Guided Tours: $7/person
Every Wednesday through May 6, 2026
(You must have 10 or more in your group.)
Request your tour here.
Upcoming Online Exhibits
Through One City's Eyes
This special exhibit will examine the past and present impacts of Black Holocaust on the City of Milwaukee. ABHM's home is in historic Bronzeville within the very heart of the most segregated metropolitan area in the USA.
You'll also soon get a peek at our exhibit about Milwaukee's Bronzeville in our onsite (physical) museum – plus a video trailer for a new movie about this once thriving neighborhood.
Film Trailer:
Remembering Bronzeville
Explore. Discover. Learn.
History Galleries
Enter here to discover seldom-told stories from seven historical periods - from pre-captivity to the present day - along with special exhibits.
A Memorial to Victims of Lynching
Here we gather their life stories, say their names, and note where and when these thousands of men, women and children were terrorized and murdered.
The Freedom Lovers Roll Call Wall
Take our Freedom-Lover's Pledge stating your commitment to work for justice for all. Put your name and/or your face on our Roll Call Wall next to those of other Freedom-Lovers who stand with you!
What is the Black Holocaust?
“Holocaust” comes from a Greek word meaning “burnt offering.” The term was first used to describe the massacres of Armenians in the 1890s. It was used again in the 1940s to describe the mass destruction of European Jewish communities by the Nazis, also known by the Hebrew word “Shoah.”
Appallingly, in the last hundred years the world has witnessed many similar atrocities
, like
the 1975-79 Cambodian Killing Fields, the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, and the 1995 Srebrenica Genocide.
For this reason, the word “holocaust” has come to
signify
“
a series of atrocities organized by one social group against another.
”
Learn more
Breaking News!
Subscribe to our newsletter "The Griot"
(Emailed to you approximately once every 3 months)
"Griot" (pronounced GREE-oh) is a West African term for storyteller. Traditionally, griots travel from city to city and village to village, carrying in their heads an incredible store of local history and current events to be shared. This newsletter is your source for news, events, and community programs from the America's Black Holocaust Museum.
Subscribe To Newsletter
Our Breaking News: Black History in the Making
ABHM regularly brings you current news and culture as reported in the Black press and by predominantly African American journalists in the mainstream press.
Why cover current events in a history museum? Because the past is still present.
As James Baldwin put it, “The great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do.”
Click on the images and titles below to check out the latest!
Elon Musk’s AI Empire Accused of Polluting Black Communities
“DEI is Dead”: Dept. of Ed. Faces Backlash Over Social Media Post
The Incredible Story of Edmonia Lewis, America’s First Black and Indigenous International Art Star
‘Let’s be this more.’ Artemis II pilot Victor Glover comes home to cheering neighbors
Support ABHM
Why Support ABHM?
More than ever,
our nation
needs the healing vision of Dr. James Cameron
,
our
museum’s founder. He dreamed of our nation as “one single and sacred nationality” and believed we could achieve a just and peaceful society through education and empathy
-
building.
Dr. Cameron's vision is as relevant and compelling today as it was when
he survived a lynching
at age sixteen. Our online and onsite galleries are spaces where visitors from around the world can experience and discuss African American history as an
integral
–
and crucial
–
part
of
the
American story.
Learn about the many ways you can
contribute to Dr. Cameron's legacy.
All
gifts
to A
BHM are tax-deductible.
Contribute
Volunteer Form
Skip to content
Click for new, virtual exhibit - Picturing Black History in Milwaukee & Beyond
ABHM
America's Black Holocaust Museum
Bringing Our History to Light
Thank you for visiting our Virtual Museum!
This is more than a website: it's a 3500+ page
Virtual
Museum
!
So what can you do here?
Here are just a few ideas:
• Discover seldom-told stories in our
Online
History Galleries
.
• Plan your
in-person
visit
to our On-Site museum's galleries.
• Find out what the
only known survivor of a US lynching
did with the rest of his long life.
• Learn about present and past challenges facing the African American community in our
Breaking News blog
.
• Take the
pledge to
be a Freedom Lover
and post your photo and/or name on our Roll Call Wall.
•
Contribute
to ABHM's work of education, reconciliation, and healing.
•
Become a
Member
of the Museum!
ABHM is a one-of-a-kind
historical
and
memorial
museum
about the
Black Holocaust in America
.
History museums
study, exhibit, and interpret history.
Memorial museums
explain and commemorate past events of mass suffering.
Over the last 40 years, people around the world have created memorial museums to help their countries and communities make sense of and draw redemptive lessons from terrible periods of man’s inhumanity to man.
James Cameron (pictured above) was inspired to create ABHM when he visited the Yad VaShem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem, Israel in 1979. Despite surviving a 1930 lynching in which two other teenagers were killed, Dr. Cameron steadfastly maintained his faith in the moral framework of liberty and justice for all embodied in the USA’s founding documents.
Peter Pierceall of Centralia IL, USA, writes:
"Excellent website galleries. I'm a 68 year old white male
and I can unequivocally say
I learned more history of the black experience than I received
i
n all my years of schooling.
I believe it to be essential education."
Learn More >
ABHM Hours of Operation
Door of No Return exhibit at ABHM. photo credit: MKE Magazine, Jarvis Lawson
Plan Your Visit
!
Come see o
ur museum’s new facility and exhibits encompassing over 400 years of history.
OPEN -
Tuesday-Thursday: 10am-5pm
Friday: 10am-3pm
Saturday: 10am-3pm
CLOSED -
Sunday & Mondays
For more information,
please call our office at
(414) 209-3640
or write us at
Contact
.
To receive quarterly updates of our events, please
Join Our Mailing List
.
ABHM Book Club
ABHM Book Club:
Poems on Various Subjects
by Phillis Wheatley
We will discuss
Poems on Various Subjects
by Phillis Wheatley on
April 25th at 1:30 PM virtually via Zoom, and in person at ABHM
.
Published in 1773,
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
introduced the world to Phillis Wheatley, the first African American to publish a book. Written while enslaved, her 39 poems blend neoclassical form with devotional, elegiac, and heroic-couplet verse, exploring Christianity, morality, and freedom. The London publication, with verification of her authorship, challenged ideas of Black inferiority and established Wheatley as a literary pioneer and enduring cultural figure.
REGISTER HERE
Featured Event
A Ticketed Event with
Imani Perry at ABHM
Boswell Book Company, America’s Black Holocaust Museum, and Niche Book Bar present a ticketed evening with National Book Award–winning author Imani Perry at ABHM on April 6th. Celebrating the paperback release of
Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People
, Perry explores the cultural, historical, and emotional power of the color blue in Black life. She will be joined in conversation by book and culture influencer Cree Myles. Tickets are $10 ($5 for ABHM members); admission only. Books available for purchase.
REGISTER
A Time of Terror: A Survivor’s Story by Dr. James Cameron
A Time of Terror: A Survivor's Story
The award-winning, expanded third edition of Dr. James Cameron’s memoir
"This forceful and absorbing tale sweeps the reader through a wide range of emotions. The narrative is at once thrilling and unnerving–and interspersed with humor and philosophical reflections on humanity's predicament. For incisive insights into the viciousness of white racism under Jim Crow–and the depths of the human spirit required to resist it, look no further. Cameron's memoir is an inspired meditation on individual human endeavor, comparable to the trials and tribulations of Richard Wright's Bigger Thomas, but with an uplifting ending."
- Dr. Stephen Small, educator and author
Click here to learn more
about the book, read excerpts, and place bulk orders.
To buy an individual copy, please click
here
.
Be a Member!
Become a member today!
Your membership supports the museum's educational programming and the legacy of museum founder Dr. James Cameron.
Membership benefits for the year include:
Free admission to our thought-provoking exhibits
$2 off the admission for additional friends and family
15% off museum merchandise
E-newsletter with updates on what is happening at ABHM
Early notification and registration access for events and programs
Membership Levels:
Individual $30 (full benefits for 1 adult)
Partner $50 (Full membership benefits for 2 adults)
Family $70 (Full membership for 2 adults and their children or grandchildren, 17 years & under within the same household)
Click here to sign up!
Space Rental
Community groups and other organizations are welcome to rent our Community Room (including a/v equipment and kitchen) for events. Please email
admin@abhmuseum.org
for more information and to make arrangements
.
Tour Request
America's Black Holocaust Museum is happy to offer tours for classes and other groups who want to visit our physical museum.
Groups of 10 or more can also request a guided tour.
Guided by Griot
(docent)
:
$10/person
(You must have 10 or more in your group.)
Discounted Guided Tours: $7/person
Every Wednesday through May 6, 2026
(You must have 10 or more in your group.)
Request your tour here.
Upcoming Online Exhibits
Through One City's Eyes
This special exhibit will examine the past and present impacts of Black Holocaust on the City of Milwaukee. ABHM's home is in historic Bronzeville within the very heart of the most segregated metropolitan area in the USA.
You'll also soon get a peek at our exhibit about Milwaukee's Bronzeville in our onsite (physical) museum – plus a video trailer for a new movie about this once thriving neighborhood.
Film Trailer:
Remembering Bronzeville
Explore. Discover. Learn.
History Galleries
Enter here to discover seldom-told stories from seven historical periods - from pre-captivity to the present day - along with special exhibits.
A Memorial to Victims of Lynching
Here we gather their life stories, say their names, and note where and when these thousands of men, women and children were terrorized and murdered.
The Freedom Lovers Roll Call Wall
Take our Freedom-Lover's Pledge stating your commitment to work for justice for all. Put your name and/or your face on our Roll Call Wall next to those of other Freedom-Lovers who stand with you!
What is the Black Holocaust?
“Holocaust” comes from a Greek word meaning “burnt offering.” The term was first used to describe the massacres of Armenians in the 1890s. It was used again in the 1940s to describe the mass destruction of European Jewish communities by the Nazis, also known by the Hebrew word “Shoah.”
Appallingly, in the last hundred years the world has witnessed many similar atrocities
, like
the 1975-79 Cambodian Killing Fields, the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, and the 1995 Srebrenica Genocide.
For this reason, the word “holocaust” has come to
signify
“
a series of atrocities organized by one social group against another.
”
Learn more
Breaking News!
Subscribe to our newsletter "The Griot"
(Emailed to you approximately once every 3 months)
"Griot" (pronounced GREE-oh) is a West African term for storyteller. Traditionally, griots travel from city to city and village to village, carrying in their heads an incredible store of local history and current events to be shared. This newsletter is your source for news, events, and community programs from the America's Black Holocaust Museum.
Subscribe To Newsletter
Our Breaking News: Black History in the Making
ABHM regularly brings you current news and culture as reported in the Black press and by predominantly African American journalists in the mainstream press.
Why cover current events in a history museum? Because the past is still present.
As James Baldwin put it, “The great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do.”
Click on the images and titles below to check out the latest!
Elon Musk’s AI Empire Accused of Polluting Black Communities
“DEI is Dead”: Dept. of Ed. Faces Backlash Over Social Media Post
The Incredible Story of Edmonia Lewis, America’s First Black and Indigenous International Art Star
‘Let’s be this more.’ Artemis II pilot Victor Glover comes home to cheering neighbors
Support ABHM
Why Support ABHM?
More than ever,
our nation
needs the healing vision of Dr. James Cameron
,
our
museum’s founder. He dreamed of our nation as “one single and sacred nationality” and believed we could achieve a just and peaceful society through education and empathy
-
building.
Dr. Cameron's vision is as relevant and compelling today as it was when
he survived a lynching
at age sixteen. Our online and onsite galleries are spaces where visitors from around the world can experience and discuss African American history as an
integral
–
and crucial
–
part
of
the
American story.
Learn about the many ways you can
contribute to Dr. Cameron's legacy.
All
gifts
to A
BHM are tax-deductible.
Contribute
Volunteer Form