A fresh start
Like similar museums around the country, Chicago’s DuSable is struggling
THE DuSable Museum of African-American History is in the right place at the right time. The grey, one-storey building is located on verdant land in the historic Washington Park in one of the prettiest parts of Chicago’s South Side. It will soon have as its neighbour, either at Washington Park or at nearby Jackson Park, the mighty library built in honour of America’s first black president. And it is considered one of the foremost black-history museums in the country at a time when Americans are yet again contemplating the unresolved business of its complex race relations.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “A fresh start”
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