Did You Know This

Sunday, January 23, 2011

Did you know that Margaret Burrough was a co-founder of Dusable Museum?

Did you know that Margaret Taylor-Burroughs was a prominent African American artist and writer and a co-founder of the DuSable Museum of African American History?

Did you know that she also helped to establish the South Side Community Art Center, whose opening on May 1, 1941 [1] was dedicated by the First Lady of the United States Eleanor Roosevelt?

Did you know in 1948 earned her Masters in Fine Arts from the Art Institute of Chicago after having earned her Bachelor's there in 1946?

Did you know that The DuSable Museum is the oldest museum of Black culture in the United States?

Did you know that when she died she was 95?

(November 11, 1917 – November 21, 2010)

Now if you didn't know, now you know...






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