Great Blacks in Wax Museum

From: Baltimore Afro-American | Date: April 2, 1994| Author: | Copyright information

M.R. Cheshire
Baltimore Afro-American
04-02-1994
Great Blacks In Wax Museum.

A mark of a society that cares deeply about its past, and recognizes the importance of maintaining an everlasting link between yesterday and today, is its support of museums where historical treasures can be both preserved and viewed by generation after generation.

Baltimore is uniquely blessed in that it houses one of these precious repositories of our remarkable Black heritage -- the Great Blacks in Wax Museum, the only such facility in the country.

Operated without benefit of local or state funds, the museum must ...

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