America's Black Holocaust Museum located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin is the only memorial dedicated specifically to the victims of the enslavement of Africans in the United States. It was founded by James Cameron, America's last living survivor of a lynching. Nickname The City of Festivals, The Brew City, The Cream City, The Nations Watering Hole Location Location of Milwaukee in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin Government County Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett Geographical characteristics Area - City - Land - Water 251. ... James Cameron (February 23, 1914 – June 11, 2006) was an American civil rights activist, the founder of Americas Black Holocaust Museum, and was the last American survivor of a lynching. ... Lynching is a term loosely applied to various forms of violence, usually murder, conceived by its perpetrators as extra-legal punishment of offenders by a summary procedure, ignoring, or even contrary to, the strict forms of law, notably execution, or used as a terrorist method of enforcing social domination. ...
Cameron died on June 11, 2006 after suffering from lymphoma for about five years.
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