Join the Milwaukee Public Library and Amer ica's Black Holocaust Museum (ABHM) as we partner to discuss Dr. James Cam eron's 1982 memoir\, A Time of Terror\, and showcase a collection of Dr. Cameron's self-published writings. Visit \;abhmuseum.org/book-club-disc ussion-guides \;for more information about the ABHM Book Club seri es\, and mpl.org/special_collections/images/dr-james-camer on-pamphlet-collection for more information about the Dr. James Camero n Pamphlet Collection.
\nDr. James Cameron (1914-2006) was an early civil rights pioneer\, self-taught public historian\, and author of dozens of essays on issues in American and African American history and contempo rary life. Cameron&rsquo\;s most well known written work is his memoir\, < em>A Time of Terror: A Survivor&rsquo\;s Story\, now in its 3rd editi on. In 1988 he founded America&rsquo\;s Black Holocaust Museum in Milwauke e\, Wisconsin. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee awarded Cameron an ho norary Doctor of Humanities degree in 1999 for a lifetime of work exhibiti ng materials of uncommon merit\, moral and intellectual value to the city and state.
\n"This forceful and absorbing tale sweeps the reader thr ough a wide range of emotions. The narrative is at once thrilling and unne rving&ndash\;and interspersed with humor and philosophical reflections on humanity's predicament. For incisive insights into the viciousness of whit e racism under Jim Crow&ndash\;and the depths of the human spirit required to resist it\, look no further. Cameron's memoir is an inspired meditatio n on individual human endeavor\, comparable to the trials and tribulations of Richard Wright's Bigger Thomas\, but with an uplifting ending." &ndash \; Dr. Stephen Small\, African American Studies\, University of California &ndash\;Berkeley\, author of Living History: The Legacy of Slavery in the Netherlands.
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