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28 Nov 2010

Margaret Burroughs, founder of Chicago’s DuSable Museum dies

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November 28, 2010 Category: Week In Review Posted by:

By Sophia Tareen

Associated Press

 

CHICAGO — A founder of one of the oldest African-American history museums in the country has died.

 

A spokesman for the DuSable Museum of African American History in Chicago, Raymond Ward, says Margaret Burroughs died in her sleep at her Chicago home Sunday morning at age 93.

 

Further details were not immediately available.

 

President Barack Obama said in a statement that Burroughs was “widely admired for her contributions to American culture as an esteemed artist, historian, educator, and mentor.”

 

Burroughs founded the museum with her husband and others on Chicago’s South Side in 1961.

 

The museum has pieces of art, exhibits on civil rights and a display on Chicago’s first black mayor, Harold Washington. It was named after Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, widely regarded as Chicago’s first permanent resident.

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