The Association of African American Museums 

Dr. Margaret Burroughs, founder of the DuSable Museum in Chicago in 1961, and Dr. Charles H. Wright, founder of the Museum of African American History in Detroit in 1965, organized a series of conferences in 1978 for an initial collective of six Black museums, that lay the groundwork for the organization of African American Museums Association.  Later renamed the Association of African American Museums (AAAM), this national consortium is dedicated to preserving and promoting the art, history, and culture of African and African American communities globally in repositories that share African American oral, artifactual, local, regional, and archival histories and community knowledge.