On March 5, 2021, the Tubman Museum will open an exhibition titled A Mighty Chorus: Black Women Artists from the Tubman Museum Collection.  The exhibit will feature works by local African American women artists from the Tubman museum collection with a special focus on the works of Nellie Mae Rowe and Anna Belle Lee Washington, […]

Block The Hate: The Confederate Monument Mural Project Call to Action The Tubman African American Museum is seeking the cooperation and support of the Macon community in the creation of a very special exhibition. In August 2021 the Tubman Museum will open a new exhibit.  Block the Hate: The Confederate Monument Mural Project will document […]

Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the Civil Rights Movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. King is best known for advancing civil rights through nonviolence and civil disobedience, inspired by his Christian beliefs and the nonviolent activism of Mahatma Gandhi.  He was the son […]

“A NEW ORDER BASED ON JUSTICE FOR ALL” South African Political Posters from the Collection of Jonathon Addleton This exhibition tells the story of Apartheid in South Africa. The word “apartheid” means “apartness’ in Afrikaans, the language of the Dutch who first settled in South Africa in the 1600’s. Apartheid was a restrictive system of […]

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