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1917 St Rose, Louisiana - 2010 Chicago, Illinois. Known for: Linocut prints, modernist still life, figure and genre painting, teaching.
Obituary, Chicago Tribune November 21, 2010 . Founder of DuSable Museum dies at 95. Dr. Margaret Burroughs, the principal founder of the DuSable Museum of African American History on Chicago's South... Read full biography
Obituary, Chicago Tribune November 21, 2010 . Founder of DuSable Museum dies at 95. Dr. Margaret Burroughs, the principal founder of the DuSable Museum of African American History on Chicago's South Side, died today. She was 95. Burroughs and her husband, Charles Burroughs, founded the... Read full biography
Obituary, Chicago Tribune November 21, 2010 . Founder of DuSable Museum dies at 95. Dr. Margaret Burroughs, the principal founder of the DuSable Museum of African American History on Chicago's South Side, died today. She was 95. Burroughs and her husband, Charles Burroughs, founded the museum--named after Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, who is widely regarded as Chicago's first permanent resident--in 1961. For the first ten years of its existence, the museum operated out of the Burroughs' home... Read full biography
Obituary, Chicago Tribune November 21, 2010 . Founder of DuSable Museum dies at 95. Dr. Margaret Burroughs, the principal founder of the DuSable Museum of African American History on Chicago's South Side, died today. She was 95. Burroughs and her husband, Charles Burroughs, founded the museum--named after Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, who is widely regarded as Chicago's first permanent resident--in 1961. For the first ten years of its existence, the museum operated out of the Burroughs' home and she served as its executive director. Known by many as a prominent artist and writer, Burroughs was born Nov. 1, 1915 in Saint Rose, La. and moved to Chicago with her family by the time she was a teenager. She attended Englewood High School from... Read full biography
Obituary, Chicago Tribune November 21, 2010 . Founder of DuSable Museum dies at 95. Dr. Margaret Burroughs, the principal founder of the DuSable Museum of African American History on Chicago's South Side, died today. She was 95. Burroughs and her husband, Charles Burroughs, founded the museum--named after Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, who is widely regarded as Chicago's first permanent resident--in 1961. For the first ten years of its existence, the museum operated out of the Burroughs' home and she served as its executive director. Known by many as a prominent artist and writer, Burroughs was born Nov. 1, 1915 in Saint Rose, La. and moved to Chicago with her family by the time she was a teenager. She attended Englewood High School from where her community activism was jumpstarted when she and classmate Gwendolyn Brooks, a Pulitzer Pri... Read full biography
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Obituary, Chicago Tribune November 21, 2010
Founder of DuSable Museum dies at 95
Dr. Margaret Burroughs, the principal founder of the DuSable Museum of African American History on Chicago's South Side, died today. She was 95.
Burroughs and her husband, Charles Burroughs, founded the museum--named after Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, who is widely regarded as Chicago's first permanent resident--in 1961. For the first ten years of its existence, the museum operated out of the Burroughs' home and she served as its executive director.
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