Evansville Indiana opens a Black Museum

Indystar writes about a new museum tracing the history of black residents in Evansville.

EVANSVILLE, Ind. -- A new museum tracing the history of Evansville's black residents opened to the public over the weekend after nearly 10 years of planning.

The Evansville African American Museum will be open permanently beginning June 5 in a building at the former Lincoln Gardens, a public housing development built by the Works Progress Administration during the 1930s.
Sondra Matthews, the museum's president and founder, said she was happy to see it open nearly 10 years after the project was first proposed.
"All of us who've seen the museum are proud. We're excited to see other people's faces," she said.
Two exhibits are yet to be completed, but visitors can take a virtual tour of the neighborhood as it was in the 1950s, view a living legends display and the Wall of Fame, and see the Lincoln-Clark Douglas room, which is dedicated to Evansville's all-black schools.
The museum also has a gift shop, community rooms, gallery, administrative offices and a replica of an original Great Depression-era Lincoln Gardens

apartment.