America’s Black Holocaust Museum

ABHM was founded by Dr. James Cameron in 1988 to educate US citizens and the world about the Black Holocaust in America. Dr. James Cameron, who survived a lynching as a teenager in 1930, dedicated his life to helping America realize its promise of liberty and justice for all. An early civil rights activist, he fought racial segregation in 1940s Indiana. After moving to Milwaukee, he was inspired to establish the America’s Black Holocaust Museum (ABHM) in 1988 after visiting the Yad VaShem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem. His passing in 2006 combined with the country’s economic downturn forced the museum to give up its building in 2008. In 2011, a small group of determined and dedicated community volunteers began working to reestablish ABHM as a physical facility. Their efforts bore fruit, their dreams were realized! ABHM’s new galleries are located on the very footprint of our first building in Milwaukee’s Bronzeville neighborhood, and describe and commemorate the Black Holocaust from pre-captivity in Africa to the present day.