James Cameron (activist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

James Cameron (activist)

American civil rights activist

Date of Birth: 23-Feb-1914

Place of Birth: La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States

Date of Death: 11-Jun-2006

Profession: civil rights advocate

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

James Cameron (February 25, 1914 – June 11, 2006) was an American civil rights activist.
In the 1940s, he founded three chapters of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in Indiana.
He also served as Indiana's State Director of the Office of Civil Liberties from 1942 to 1950. In the 1950s he moved with his family to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he continued as an activist and started speaking on African-American history.
In 1988 he founded America's Black Holocaust Museum in the city, devoted to African-American history from slavery to the present. Cameron was a survivor of a lynching attempt, which occurred when he was a 16-year-old suspect in a murder/robbery case in Marion, Indiana; two older teenagers were killed by the mob, a spectacle of thousands.