Dr. James Cameron and the America's Black Holocaust Museum

Created Equal: America’s Civil rights Struggle

Dr. James Cameron and

America’s Black Holocaust Museum

Reggie Jackson from America’s Black Holocaust Museum returns to talk about civil rights activist and Milwaukee icon Dr. James Cameron, who survived a lynching as a young man, and founded Milwaukee’s America’s Black Holocaust Museum. 

James Cameron became a brilliant, well-read, self-taught historian and lecturer. He gave many interviews on national television, including on Larry King Live, the Oprah Winfrey Show, and the 700 Club. The BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation), a Dutch film company, and several public television stations featured him in documentary movies made about the lynching.^.
Dr. Cameron’s lifework focused on raising Americans’ consciousness and conscience about the atrocity of lynching. He did this by publicly and tirelessly retelling his personal experience. To educate the public about the injustices suffered by people of African descent in America, Cameron founded and ran the America’s Black Holocaust Museum from the mid-eighties until his death.

All films and discussions are free and open to the public

This series is made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

Please call the library at (414) 351-3461

or stop by the Reference Desk to register.

If you require special accommodations, notify the

Library Director Richard Nelson at least 72 hours in advance.

 

Slavery by Another Name

Created Equal: America’s Civil rights Struggle

Slavery by Another Name

North Shore Library

Film Screening Tuesday, October 22^nd 6 p.m.

Film Discussion Saturday October 26^th 1 p.m.

For African Americans after the Civil War, the abolition of slavery in 1865 was a

landmark in human history. But blacks came to recognize that while slavery had been abolished, their newly secured freedom was at risk despite the Reconstruction-era constitutional amendments. New forms of coerced labor proliferated in the post-Civil War South, as trumped-up criminal charges were used as a pretext for the virtual re-enslavement of thousands of able-bodied southern black men and women. The film screening is Tuesday October, 22^nd at 6 p.m. Then come back for an interesting and lively discussion of the film led by Robert S. Smith, Associate Professor of History UW-Milwaukee Saturday October 26^th at 1 pm.

All films and discussions are free and open to the public

This series is made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

Please call the library at (414) 351-3461

or stop by the Reference Desk to register.

If you require special accommodations, notify the

Library Director Richard Nelson at least 72 hours in advance.