About the Museum

America's Black Holocaust Museum (ABHM) is dedicated to the history of the Black Holocaust in America. The museum was founded in 1988 by James Cameron, who became well known after surviving a lynching in 1930. Cameron died in 2006, and in 2008, the museum's board of directors announced that the museum would be closed temporarily because of the reduced funding that occurred during the 2008 Great Recession. A foundation was created in 2012 to continue Cameron's legacy and vision. In 2012, the foundation re-opened ABHM as a 3,200-plus-page virtual museum available on their website. In 2016, the foundation announced plans to reopen the physical museum in Milwaukee's historic Bronzeville neighborhood, on the footprint of the original museum, with an originally-planned 2019 re-opening, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the re-opening was delayed. Shortly following, an anonymous $10 million donation in late 2021 was received, and the museum re-opened in February 2022.