DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center

This guide to the DuSable Black History Museum in Chicago traces the 1910 building around you from its original life as South Park Commission offices and, later, a police lockup. It follows Margaret Taylor-Burroughs, who started the museum's collection in her own home and taught Chicago children about Black scientists, poets, and inventors the textbooks left out, and the 1951 hearing where the Board of Education grilled her about communist ties. She refused to name a single colleague and kept working while a file on her quietly grew for years.