The museum features six exhibit rooms in a 1924 home once owned by Dr. Calvin Baber, Greene County’s second African American doctor. MARK ENGEL/Staff
The Greene County African American History and Culture Museum is located at 1415 Northeast Street in Greensboro. Email mamie@gcaam.org for information and hours. MARK ENGEL/Staff
Mamie Hillman is the Director of the Greene County African American History Museum, which opened in October 2021. MARK ENGEL/Staff
Artifacts of African American history are on display in the museum. MARK ENGEL/Staff
The Greene County African American History Museum is only about 16 months old but it has been living in Mamie Hillman’s heart for decades.
The museum’s founder and director grew up in White Plains and attended what was then the all-black Hubert English Elementary School.
“They would allow us to clip pictures out of these Ebony magazines,” Hillman told the Lake Oco...