Andrea Burns book From Store Front to Monument: Tracing the Public History of the Black Museum Movement is a fascinating interpretation of the development of the African- American Museums. Her argument that in order to understand the development of African- American Museums it is important to first look at where these museums were built and the goals in which the embodied; “Understanding the origins of this evolution helps us contextualize and historicize black public history, from its modest but courageous beginnings to its present-day manifestation as a bold and highly visible movement”. Burn’s argument can be seen in every chapter and every museum that she chooses to present. Burns book is broken down into six chapters and each of those
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This chapter surrounds the African American Museum of Philadelphia and the Bicentennial of 1776. The reason she chose the event was to show the progression of African- American Museums; it showed the development of racial tension as well as elevating the need for African- American Museums to have a view in how this country treated them and the history that their race hold that helped develop this country. This Chapter also shows the problems between blacks and whites and how each race wanted to view history. The Third Chapter slightly coincides with Chapter two. Chapter three focuses on how African American Museums wanted to present their history and exhibits to the public. It also focuses on how the will get people to learn what they are trying to enforce. This includes building a mobile museum that goes schools to tach kids about their museum. The fourth chapter also focus on how the community sees the museums. Though this chapter focuses mostly on the African American Museum of Philadelphia and its dealing with programs that reach out to the community to teach them about the African American History of the 1776 Bicentennial. These three chapters are directly in line with her argument, in order to understand African American Museums there has to be an understanding of where and how they were created. These chapters show that the views of the public, the struggles of trying to tell their history, and …show more content…
Every time she states a historical event or supplies information about a person or a museum she supports it with a reliable source. Some of her primary source such as the Philadelphia Bulletin, which gave descriptions of exhibit, were most likely created as opinion pieces , but Burns turned them into factual evidence that help support her claim. She also used factual sources such as, Charles Wright’s bills and committee papers, to help support her opinion of how to better improve the proses in which to pass a bill of protecting black history. Over all he sources and situations are very reliable and is one of the best parts of her book.
Burns strength in this book was the overall success she had with her argument. Her presentation of the Philadelphia museum involvement in the Bicentennial and there struggles with people not wanting them to pursue their African American history. Her use of the Black Power Movement men such as Malcom X, W.E.B DuBois, and Martin Luther King contributed to the helping of recognizing black history. Using these historical facts to help develop her argument is what makes it so successful and is by far the best part of the
This chapter surrounds the African American Museum of Philadelphia and the Bicentennial of 1776. The reason she chose the event was to show the progression of African- American Museums; it showed the development of racial tension as well as elevating the need for African- American Museums to have a view in how this country treated them and the history that their race hold that helped develop this country. This Chapter also shows the problems between blacks and whites and how each race wanted to view history. The Third Chapter slightly coincides with Chapter two. Chapter three focuses on how African American Museums wanted to present their history and exhibits to the public. It also focuses on how the will get people to learn what they are trying to enforce. This includes building a mobile museum that goes schools to tach kids about their museum. The fourth chapter also focus on how the community sees the museums. Though this chapter focuses mostly on the African American Museum of Philadelphia and its dealing with programs that reach out to the community to teach them about the African American History of the 1776 Bicentennial. These three chapters are directly in line with her argument, in order to understand African American Museums there has to be an understanding of where and how they were created. These chapters show that the views of the public, the struggles of trying to tell their history, and …show more content…
Every time she states a historical event or supplies information about a person or a museum she supports it with a reliable source. Some of her primary source such as the Philadelphia Bulletin, which gave descriptions of exhibit, were most likely created as opinion pieces , but Burns turned them into factual evidence that help support her claim. She also used factual sources such as, Charles Wright’s bills and committee papers, to help support her opinion of how to better improve the proses in which to pass a bill of protecting black history. Over all he sources and situations are very reliable and is one of the best parts of her book.
Burns strength in this book was the overall success she had with her argument. Her presentation of the Philadelphia museum involvement in the Bicentennial and there struggles with people not wanting them to pursue their African American history. Her use of the Black Power Movement men such as Malcom X, W.E.B DuBois, and Martin Luther King contributed to the helping of recognizing black history. Using these historical facts to help develop her argument is what makes it so successful and is by far the best part of the