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Dr. Charles Howard Wright, a successful Detroit physician and civil rights activist, founded Detroit’s first International Afro-American Museum in 1965. Inspired by a memorial for Danish World War II heroes, Dr. Wright decided that African Americans needed a place to document, preserve, become educated about, and take pride in their culture and history.
Dr. Wright defined that important task as "ensuring that generations, especially young African Americans, are made aware of and take pride in the history of their forebears and their remarkable struggle for freedom." Over half a century since Dr. Wright first opened the International Afro-American Museum in January of 1966, The Wright has ...
Mar 12, 2002 · Wright created the International Afro-American Museum in a Detroit row house where he lived and worked in 1965, donating $1,000 a month to pay for a small staff and costs. Advertisement
The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, or The Wright, is located in Detroit, Michigan in the US; inside the city's Midtown Cultural Center is one of the world's oldest independent African-American museums. Founded in 1965, The Wright museum holds the world's largest permanent collection of African-American culture. [1]
Wright was the writer and publisher of the Medical Association Demand Equal Opportunity, and also wrote two books on Paul Robeson: Robeson: Labor's Forgotten Champion and The Peace Advocacy of Paul Robeson. [2] In 1965, Wright opened the International Afro-American Museum on West Grand Boulevard. [3] The next year, he opened a traveling exhibit ...
Dr. Wright began his work during the Civil Rights Movement and saw firsthand the courage of Black Americans who fought against segregation, voter suppression, and other racist attitudes of the ...
The museum opened on January 30, 1966 at 1549 West Grand Boulevard. The museum grew and evolved and over many decades, the Museum of African American History evolved. With the approval of voters, city leadership, donors and more, the 125,000 sq-foot, technologically-advanced museum that we all know and love opened on Warren Ave. in April 1997.
