Craig Dellimore, Political Editor, reporting
CHICAGO (WBBM) — The Daley Administration is honoring historian Dr. Margaret Burroughs with an exhibit along the lakefront at 70th and South Shore Drive.
Members of the South Shore Opera Company serenaded the guest of honor as Mayor Richard M. Daley presided over the dedications of the Margaret Burroughs Gallery.
Chicago Park District Superintendent Timothy Mitchell says the gallery at the South Shore Cultural Center features the artwork of a woman who champions Black History and is—-herself-—a major part of it.
She’s best known for founding and running the DuSable Museum of African American History. Mitchell says it was the first such African-American Museum in the U.S.
At the event, Dr. Burroughs suggested it’s nice to get such accolades while she’s still alive to hear them.
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