Table of Contents 3 Letter from the Chairperson & President 4 For The Love of Literacy 5 Inspiring Minds 6 Highlights from the Past Year 14 Financial Activities 15 Museum Donors 18 Museum Partners 19 Board of Trustees & Museum Officers Letter from the Chairperson & President Dear Friends:

Inspiring Minds: it’s not just the name of our newest permanent exhibit. It’s also an extraordinarily apt description of what the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History does, day in and day out, for people of all ages and backgrounds. Exploring the African American experience through the arts, humanities, law, literacy, science and health, The Wright Museum provides an array of aesthetic, interpretive, and intellectual opportunities to inspire visitors for a lifetime.

Over the past year, we have made great strides toward the exciting future to come. These include:

• Partnering with over 90 organizations including universities, cultural institutions, and the U.S. Department of Education to present an incredible diversity of programming including close to 200 educational and public events • Hosting 12 new exhibitions including Visions of Our 44th President, a groundbreaking collaboration with 44 contemporary artists from across the country that will be the Museum’s first national traveling exhibit • Our Camp Africa summer program that served 3,800 Detroit Public Schools students • The Jerry Pinkney Celebrity Children’s Book Fair, the success of which resulted in the awarding of an endowment by the Knight Foundation to fund this literacy program on an ongoing basis

At 125,000 square feet and with a collection of over 35,000 artifacts, The Wright Museum is the largest museum of African American history in the world. But our impact goes far beyond our physical footprint. We provide needed educational opportunities to thousands of children throughout the region, and serve over a half million people per year – locally, nationally, and internationally – through our exhibits, programs, websites, and events such as African World Festival, which celebrated its 30th year in 2012. For the first time ever, AWF was held on the museum grounds.

The Museum is a vital part of Michigan’s arts and cultural community, which in sum generates more than $2 billion dollars in economic activity annually for the State of Michigan. We have taken a leadership role in the cultural resurgence of Detroit as a doorway for emerging artists in all disciplines – whether through our Contemporary Artists Program highlighting African American visual artists, or our hundreds of events, the Museum serves as a stage for musicians, dancers, poets, and performers of all cultural backgrounds who are taking the next step in their careers.

Over the next year, the Inspiring Minds exhibition will show thousands of children that with hard work and the will to succeed, their dreams can be attained. Perhaps the next big scientific breakthrough in medicine, environmental protection, or consumer technology will find its seed in the galleries of The Wright Museum.

Furthermore, a father may be encouraged by his children to read to them by what they experience in our Children’s Discovery Room. A graduate student can make a new connection for their thesis in our research library. And a young couple will start a new life together with vows said under the Ford Freedom Rotunda dome.

These things we do, and will continue to, for children, parents, seniors, performing artists, budding scientists, all people, the rich and the poor – Inspiring Minds, for what comes next, by understanding what came before: fostering context; encouraging contemplation; and enabling creation, understanding, and cooperation.

Thank you, as always, for your continued support and dedication.

Very truly yours,

Elizabeth (“Betty”) Brooks Juanita Moore Chairperson, Board of Trustees President & CEO

3 For The Love of Literacy Summer Programs Encourage Literacy and Culminate in Sold-Out Benefit Gala 47% of Detroiters are reportedly functionally illiterate. Pamela Alexander of Title Sponsor Ford Motor Company Fund [SOURCE: Detroit Literacy Coalition] shared Moore’s sentiments when addressing the crowd. 68.8% of Michigan’s public school 4th graders are “Imagine coming to this Museum and not being able to interact unable to read at grade level. with the culture that’s here because you can’t read. We are proud [SOURCE: Children’s Defense Fund Factsheet 2012] to support education and literacy initiatives because we know how exceedingly important they are.” Such statistics demonstrate the need for a strong, comprehensive focus on literacy on the part of the Detroit community and The Wright Museum would like to thank the Gala Host its stakeholders. The Charles H. Wright Museum of African Committee: Chairperson Yvette Bing; Co-Chairs Jo Coleman, American History is doing its part. Jennifer Fischer, Cynthia Ford, and Kim Reuss; and committee members Betty Brooks, Serena Cockrell, Retha Douglas, Linda In June and July, the Museum bustled with elementary school Forte, Mary Ann Gargaro, Linda Gillum, Sharon James, Marion children during Camp Africa, which served 3,800 students from Jones, Florine Mark, Vivian Pickard, Glenda Price, Ph.D., the Detroit Public Schools. Camp Unit Leaders taught about Suzanne Shank, Judith Sims, Barbara K. Smith, Ph.D., Dr. slavery and the Underground Railroad through vocabulary, Lorna Thomas, and Roberta Hughes Wright, Ph.D. reading, workshops, and the Museum’s interactive Children’s Discovery Room. Middle school students studied antebellum-era Sponsors of the For the Love of Literacy Benefit include Title culture, abolitionists, and the Civil Rights movement. A variety Presenting Sponsor Ford Motor Company Fund; Exhibition of teaching techniques were employed, including documentary Sponsor General Motors Foundation; Gala Sponsors Yvette viewing, the creation of songs, poetry and raps, and sit-in protest and Dave Bing, Jo Coleman/The Culinary Studio, Jennifer and simulations. “The camp contributed to the Museum’s mission of David Fischer/The Suburban Collection, Cynthia and Edsel education by encouraging literacy, exploring history, and engaging Ford, and Kim and Mark Reuss/General Motors; Literacy and higher-level thinking,” said camp director and Culture Corps Education Sponsor Bank of America; Entertainment Sponsor intern, Carolyn Chambers. MGM Grand Detroit; and Prolific Readers Sponsors Serena and Kieth Cockrell, DTE Energy Foundation, JPMorgan Chase & The Wright Museum also welcomed children’s book illustrator Co., Richard and Jane Manoogian Foundation, Siebert Brandford Jerry Pinkney and his wife Gloria Jean Pinkney to July’s Shank & Co., and Yazaki North America. Celebrity Children’s Book Fair, and each Wednesday afternoon in August young ones and their parents gathered in the Museum’s Orientation Theater for live storytelling.

These efforts culminated in The Wright Gala 2012: For The Love of Literacy, held September 8. The Ford Freedom Rotunda was transformed into a literary lounge with chandeliers, fine food, and décor reflective of the evening’s theme – including stacks of books on bookshelves, and seating areas named after library collections.

“This evening is very personal to me because we are actually celebrating an opportunity to change the literacy rate in this community” said Juanita Moore, Museum president & CEO. Moore related that because of her father’s great memory and creativity, she was unaware until she was a teenager that he could not read or write. “So when I see young people today, especially, and they are struggling with literacy, I think about my father, and I know what they could become if they could only have the opportunity to learn to be literate.” The Wright Gala co-chair Jennifer Fischer and Chairperson Yvette Bing (top); images of The Wright Gala and the Jerry Pinkney Celebrity Children’s Book Fair New, permanent exhibition explores African American contributions to the STEM fields

Sometimes, a spark of inspiration comes from the unlikeliest of “Inspiring Minds fulfills the wishes of the Museum’s founder, places – even, as 8-year old James Edward West learned, from 120 Dr. Charles H. Wright, himself a man of science,” says Robert L. volts of electricity. Known in his family for dismantling things to Smith, the Museum’s vice president of Education and Exhibitions. learn how they worked, James received quite a jolt when he tried “Dr. Wright wanted children to know the contributions of African to plug the cord of a radio he had repaired into an electrical socket. American scientists and inventors. He believed this knowledge Consequently, his fearless curiosity became a fascination with would inspire them to see greater possibilities for themselves. electricity. James went on to earn a Bachelor of Science degree Inspiring Minds promises to have a direct and meaningful impact from Temple University while interning at Bell Labs. He spent on children who visit, increasing their appreciation and learning the next 40 years developing technologies such as the foil electret of the STEM fields and the individuals of color behind great microphone, the principles of which are used in 90% of today’s inventions and discoveries.” telephones and recording devices. West’s legacy includes more than 140 patents, and the Corporate Research Fellowship Program The mission of this multi-year project is he founded that has helped women and minorities obtain more to inspire young people to pursue careers than 500 Ph.D. degrees. in the STEM fields using the personal stories of historical and contemporary James West’s shocking experience illustrates an important point – a scientists and inventors who have made pivotal event in the life of a child can inspire a lifetime of curiosity important contributions to the world. and invention, and result in amazing advances for humankind. The The exhibit will feature educational desire to create that pivotal moment for thousands of children in programs including daily tours, weekend the years to come led the Charles H. Wright Museum of African workshops with scientists, and a national American History to unveil its newest permanent exhibit, Inspiring robotics competition. Minds: African Americans in Science and Technology, in November 2012. Highlighting trailblazers, contemporaries, and careers in the An opening reception and panel discussion took place Friday, STEM fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, November 9, 2012, with remarks by Yvonne Rodgers of The it is the Museum’s largest long-term installation since the opening Renaissance (MI) Chapter of The Links, Incorporated - which of its core exhibit, And Still We Rise, in 2005. provided significant funding forInspiring Minds - as well as members of the educational and scientific communities who Designed for K – 8th grade students and the general public, contributed to, or were included in, the exhibition. Inspiring Minds details the achievements of over 500 African American scientists and technologists through interactive computer Every child should be inspired to see greater possibilities for kiosks, a touch screen video wall, and hands-on activities and themselves, and for their contributions to the world. There’s a safer play areas. Included are vignettes on African American women way to do this than with 120 volts of electricity. It’s by creating in science, black aviators, black inventors, medical ethics, and key engaging experiences that place African American contributions to historical figures such as George Washington Carver. the STEM fields within the broader context of American history. The Wright Museum has done just that through Inspiring Minds.

Andrew Humphrey, meteorologist and WDIV-TV reporter, and young scientists at the Inspiring Minds opening reception 5 Highlights from the Past Year December 2011 • 39th Annual Noel Night • 30 Days To Lose It! Weekly Workouts (ongoing) • Hustle for History Weekly Dance Lessons (ongoing) • Charter One Free Family Second Sundays (ongoing) • Taking Root: The Vision of Waangari Maathai Film Screening • Kwanzaa Celebrations

January 2012

• Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Breakfast & Celebration • Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock Film Screening • Association for the Study of African American Life & History (ASALH) Monthly Meetings (ongoing)

Great American Artists: Roots, Branches, and Seeds January 12, 2012 – January 6, 2013 Halima Cassells, star incarnate This yearlong exhibition, organized and presented by the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History’s Contemporary Artists Program, features new figurative works by a consortium of Detroit artists including Christopher Batten, Endia Beal, Halima Cassells, Senghor Reid, Thirst Alonzo Edwards, Sydney James, Gregory Johnson, Richard Lewis, Mario Moore, Sabrina Nelson, and Senghor Reid. This cooperative provides the group a means of documenting and preserving each artist’s image and their careers.

Moving to His Own Beat - Fela: The Man, The Movement, The Music January 13, 2012 – March 17, 2013 Created in partnership with Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts in tandem with the arrival of the Broadway smash musical, Fela!, in February 2012, this exhibit examines the life of Nigerian superstar Fela Kuti in the realms of music, culture, and politics. Always pushing the envelope, Fela infused traditional African highlife music with classical jazz and funk to create “Afrobeat.” He spoke out against the ruling government, returned to African traditions that had been interrupted during Colonialism, and brilliantly used his music as a political medium. Fela’s undying passion for African peoples, understanding of the power of art and politics, and unyielding struggle against the colonial forces in Nigeria solidified his legacy as a shimmering agent of change. Photo by Leni Sinclair Great Michigan Read Sweet Trials Reenactment, Dr. Sweet’s Tinderbox January 14, 2012 Dr. Sweet’s Tinderbox by Brenda Perryman, presented in partnership with the Michigan Humanities Council as part of the 2011-2012 Great Michigan Read book tour for Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age by author Kevin Boyle, is a dramatization of the historic Detroit murder trials involving Dr. Ossian Sweet. Included with the event was a poetry performance by InsideOut Detroit and panel discussion featuring Congressman John Conyers Jr.; Federal Judge Denise Page Hood; Jocelyn Benson, Associate Professor of law at Wayne State University; and Dr. Irshad Altheimer, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Wayne State University. The Detroit Urban Debate League, comprised of area high school students, conducted research and discussion workshops to develop content for the panel. Dr. Sweet’s Tinderbox returned for an encore performance on February 22; both productions garnered full houses in the Museum’s General Motors Theater. Highlights from the Past Year February 2012

We Don’t Want Them: A History of Detroit’s Housing Segregation February 1 – 27, 2012 This traveling exhibit showcasing the history of housing segregation in Detroit provided a powerful backdrop for local dialogue on issues of difference, structural discrimination, and immigration. The exhibition focused on the metropolitan Detroit region, and prominently featured the Ossian Sweet trials. It also placed the 2012 Great Michigan Read book, Arc of Justice, in a broader context of policies and practices that limited where some could live, thus impacting their quality of life.

Kevin Boyle, Author of the 2012 Great Michigan Read Book Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age

Mixing Metaphors: The Aesthetic, Social and Political in African American Art February 3 – June 3, 2012 Organized and sponsored by Bank of America, Mixing Metaphors is composed of more than 90 paintings, prints, drawings, photographs, sculptures, and mixed media works by 36 artists including Jacob Lawrence and Romare Bearden. The exhibition draws its inspiration from the different artists’ visions and their use of technique to convey compelling stories. Body politics, race, class, and gender are a few of the topics that surface in these works of art, which depict moments from the extraordinary to the mundane.

Charles Stewart, John & Alice Coltrane

Jacob Lawrence, Aspirations

• Afrobeat Album Art Workshops • Black Health Empowerment Workshops • Chasing the Spirit: Gorovodu in Southern Togo Film Screening • Broken Stones Film Screening • Songs of Freedom Music Workshops • The Witches of Gambaga Film Screening • Voices of the Civil War Monthly Webisodes (ongoing) • More than a Month Film Screening • Great American Artists Panel Discussion • AfroFlow: From Michigan to the Motherland Concert • Sankofa Film Screening • Dr. Sweet’s Tinderbox Encore Theatrical Performance • Half Past Autumn Lecture with Craig Rice • Old School Black Historians and the Hip Hop Generation Lecture • Darnell Kendricks Presents An Evening of Soul Concert • The Story of Lover’s Rock Film Screening AfroFlow Concert performers

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March 2012 • The Robert Glasper Experiment In Concert • For Colored Girls Film Screening • 3rd Annual Black Women Rock! Concert • Black Women Rock! Community Celebration • Revenge of the Electric Car Film Screening Divinity Roxx performs at Black Women Rock! • Women and HIV/AIDS: Preserving Our Future Panel Discussion • Miss Representation Film Screening • Black Marriage Day Weekend • Inspiration: Profiles of Black Women Changing Our World Book Launch Event • Tribute Concert to Billie Holiday, Odetta, Nina Simone & Miriam Makeba • It’s All Good Hair 2: A Natural Hair Celebration • Lecture and Reception with MacArthur Fellow Dr. Tiya Miles

Monica Blaire performs for Women’s History Month

jessica Care moore, Black Women Rock! Creator

April 2012 • Brewster Douglass, You’re My Brother Film Screening • Mahogany Dreams Theatrical Production

Black Marriage Day Highlights from the Past Year

• The Robert Glasper Experiment In Concert • For Colored Girls Film Screening • 3rd Annual Black Women Rock! Concert • Black Women Rock! Community Celebration • Revenge of the Electric Car Film Screening • Women and HIV/AIDS: Preserving Our Future Panel Discussion • Miss Representation Film Screening • Black Marriage Day Weekend • Inspiration: Profiles of Black Women Changing Our World Book Launch Event • Tribute Concert to Billie Holiday, Odetta, Nina Simone & Miriam Makeba • It’s All Good Hair 2: A Natural Hair Celebration (L to R) • Lecture and Reception with MacArthur Fellow Dr. Tiya Miles

Ford Freedom Award essay contest winners and honorees

May 2012 2012 Ford Freedom Award May 17, 2012 Made possible by Ford Motor Company, this year’s Ford Freedom Awards honored The Harlem Rens, the first all- black, African American-owned championship basketball team. Representing the Harlem Rens was former player Frank (L to R) Ziad Ojakli, Juanita Moore, Richard Bell, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Washington, and Richard Bell, the son of Rens player “Puggy” Bell. Frank Washington, and Pamela Alexander at the Ford Freedom Award Gala NBA all-time leading scorer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was the Ford Freedom Scholar, and was recognized for his book, What Color is My World? The Lost History of African American Inventors. Abdul-Jabbar spoke extensively about education and its importance to over 1700 students at the Scholar’s Lecture.

Malcolm X Day: A Historic Homecoming May 19, 2012 In honor of Malcolm X’s (El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz) birthday, an overflow event featuring authors Herb Boyd and Dr. Haki R. Madhubuti and poet jessica Care moore attracted over 350 attendees. A rare sculptural bust of Malcolm X and his original writings, letters and artifacts were on display all day along with original works by artist Charles Ezra Ferrell.

Herb Boyd

Dr. Haki R. Madhubuti

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Illustration from The Lion and the Mouse, Jerry Pinkney. ©2009 Jerry Pinkney Studio. All rights reserved

JUNE 2012 Witness: The Art of Jerry Pinkney June 14 – September 9, 2012 This retrospective exhibition traces illustrator Jerry Pinkney’s 50-year career producing some of the most highly acclaimed children’s books of our time. The recipient of five Caldecott Honor Medals, five Coretta Scott King Awards, four Coretta Scott King Honor Awards, and a Cover Illustration for John Henry, Jerry Pinkney. ©1994 Jerry Pinkney Studio. All rights reserved lifetime achievement award from the Society of Illustrators in New York, Pinkney has also served on the Board of the National Endowment for the Arts, and on the National Postal Service’s Citizen Stamp Advisory Council. Witness: The Art of Jerry Pinkney was organized by the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and was sponsored locally by the General Motors Foundation.

Suai performs at the Juneteenth Summer Soul Concert

• From Frederick Douglass to Huey Newton: The Modern and Historical Relationship of the African American in China Lecture • Juneteenth Summer Soul Spectacular Concert • Darnell Kendricks Presents A Soulful Summer Evening Concert

Anthony David performs at the Juneteenth Summer Soul Concert Highlights from the Past Year

JULY 2012 • Grace Lee Boggs 97th Birthday Love Celebration & Film Premiere • Camp Africa Daily Summer Camps • 20th Annual Concert of Colors Opening Night • Jerry Pinkney Celebrity Children’s Book Fair

Jerry Pinkney Celebrity Children’s Book Fair

AUGUST 2012 • Black Breastfeeding 360 • Super Summer Storytime

30th Annual African World Festival August 17 – 19, 2012 African World Festival attendees doing the hustle After three decades of celebrating African life and culture through dance, music, and cuisine, the African World Festival came home to The Wright Museum. “I loved the change in venue,” said Seycon Nadia Chea, assistant festival coordinator. Chea has attended the festival for years, but worked behind the scenes to make this one a reality. “It felt like a big family reunion.” Highlights included a special exhibit showcasing memorabilia going back to the first AWF in the 1980s, the King Center Imaging Project courtesy of JPMorgan Chase & Co., the Detroit Rocks the Runway fashion show Saturday night, and the World’s Longest Soul Train Line on Sunday. An estimated 100,000 attendees enjoyed the festival during the three-day weekend. 11 Highlights from the Past Year

SEPTEMBER 2012

• Half the Sky Film Screening • The Wright Gala 2012: For the Love of Literacy • Grandparents Day • The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 Film Screening • 8th Biennial Awards for Excellence Legacy Dinner

Grandparents Day honorees

Liberation Film Series 2012 – 2013 Season The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History’s Liberation Film Series: 2012-2013 Season educates the youth, and others, about the real world and the Black people - many unknown - who struggled, globally, to make it better. This monthly series offers the regional community an opportunity to experience a season of culturally important, enlightening, and engaging films, each followed by an insightful speaker-led dialogue with prominent scholar-activists.

Visions of Our 44th President September 20, 2012 – August 4, 2013 This collective art exhibit was created to honor and celebrate the significance of the first African American President of the United States, Barack Obama. Forty-four busts were created from a model that served as a blank canvas, giving each of forty-four artists from across the country – including Tyree Guyton, Gale Fulton Ross, Faith Ringgold, and Kadir Nelson – free reign to creatively interpret this milestone in American history. The Visions exhibit will be The Wright Museum’s first national traveling exhibit; at the conclusion of the tour, the works become a part of the Museum’s permanent collection. 11 Highlights from the Past Year

Visions of Our 44th President artists (from L to R) Phoebe Beasley, Charly Palmer, Allie McGhee, Najjar Abdul-Musawwir (kneeling), Shirley Woodson, Pheoris West, Gilda Snowden, Matthew Gonzales, Dayo Laoye, Tyree Guyton, Felandus Thames, Louis Delsarte, Preston Sampson, Melvin Clark, and D. DelReverda October 2012 • As Goes Janesville Film Screening • DLECTRICITY Midtown Detroit’s Nighttime Exhibition of Art + Light • They Came Before Columbus Lecture • Visions of Our 44th President Artists Reception & Discussion • Finally got the News Film Screening • Dear Mandela Film Screening • Fela’s Birthday Dance Party • The Autumn Soundtrack Concert

A Very Present Force: Celebrating 100 Years of the Detroit Branch NAACP November 14, 2012 – March 3, 2013 Since its formation in 1912 - only three years after the founding of the national association - the Detroit Branch NAACP has been on the front lines of civil rights activism and advocacy, both locally and throughout the nation. A Very Present Force celebrates this sustained and important century-long struggle for equal opportunity and social justice, exploring the Detroit Branch NAACP’s rich local history while situating it within the broader national and international struggle for civil rights.

November 2012 • Complex Movements of Detroit Digital Music Box Workshop • The Black Unicorn: Dudley Randall and The Broadside Press and StarbyStar: Naomi Long Madgett, Poet & Publisher Double Feature • Kids Kicking Cancer presents The Breath Brake

Pathways to Freedom in the Americas: Shared Experiences between Michigan and Mexico November 16, 2012 – March 31, 2013 Inspired by the meeting of two women who became fast friends - Patricia Ann Talley, an African American from the United States of America, and Candelaria Donají Méndez Tello, an Afro-Mexican from the United Mexican States - Pathways to Freedom presents the symbiotic relationship that has existed between Americans and Mexicans but has seldom been told. The exhibition depicts the story of fugitives that escaped slavery in the United States on the Underground Railroad south to Mexico, African heritage as it continues to permeate Mexican culture, the migration of Mexicans to Michigan, and the culture as it has manifested in Southwest Detroit. 1312 Fiscal Year 2012 Financial Highlights This fiscal year was a period of opportunity and challenge. The opportunity resulted from the Museum’s ability to receive funding for major projects, such as the Inspiring Minds exhibition and Underground Railroad projects. The Museum also hosted its first major fundraising gala in September 2011, which was a financial success. The challenge resulted from reduced operating support from the City of Detroit. Those funds support the operation and maintenance of the Museum building, grounds, and artifacts.

A summary of financial activity for the year includes the following: Total revenue for the year increased $309,600. This was due to increased grants to support specific projects and increased earned revenue, including the gala. Total expenses for the year increased $544,200. This was due to expenses associated with implementation of the Inspiring Minds exhibition, Children’s Discovery Room, and other projects. The majority of the revenue for the Inspiring Minds exhibition and Children’s Discovery Room was recognized in prior fiscal years. Operating support from the City of Detroit was reduced $300,000. Earned revenue (admissions, facility rentals, the museum store, memberships, fundraising) excluding the gala increased $245,000. Cash and investments decreased approximately $684,000. Cash restricted for projects listed above was expended in accordance with grant obligations and overall liabilities were decreased approximately $60,000. The Museum’s endowment fund decreased 2 percent from the prior year to a total of approximately $890,000. An additional $2.3 million is currently held in trust by the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan for a total of approximately $3.2 million.

Statements of Activities (All Funds Combined) For the Years Ended June 30, 2012, 2011, and 2010 (in thousands of dollars)

2012 2011 2010 Revenues: $5,389.2 $5,079.6 $5,659.2

Expenses: $5,361.4 $4,817.2 $5,411.5

NET INCREASE (DECREASE) before depreciation $27.8 $262.4 $247.7

Depreciation $171.1 $226.2 $1,105.6

NET INCREASE (DECREASE) in Net Assets ($143.3) $36.2 ($857.9)

NET ASSETS - Beginning $3,495.7 $3,459.5 $4,317.4

NET ASSETS - Ending $3,352.4 $3,495.7 $3,459.5 Museum Donors July 1, 2011 - June 30, 2012 The Museum would like to extend its sincere appreciation to those donors who made annual gifts to support our exhibits, programming and special events. Listed below are the names of contributors who made gifts of $500 or more. Every attempt had been made to list donors accurately; if there are errors or omissions, please contact (313) 494-5872 to provide updated information.

$500,000 + Denso International America, Inc. Mr. Cullen and Mrs. Helena Dubose City of Detroit Fifth Third Bank Friends Committee of Charles H. Wright Museum of $250,000 + African American History Reginald Hartsfield, The Manors Skilled Nursing & Ford Motor Company Rehabilitation Centers Mr. Peter and Mrs. Danialle Karmanos $100,000 + Mr. James and Ms. Ayana McGinnis Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan Moroch & Associates, Inc. Ford Motor Company Fund National Heritage Area United States Department of Education Nordstrom The Pepsi Bottling Group PVS Chemicals Incorporated $50,000 + Quicken Loans JPMorgan Chase & Co. Real Times Media Kresge Foundation Mr. Peter Remington and Ms. Peggy Daitch Target Stores St. John Providence Health System State of Michigan $25,000 + Dr. Lorna Thomas Bank of America Charitable Foundation, Inc. Women’s Committee of Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History City of Detroit Employees Mr. Barry and Mrs. Stephanie Zekelman Erb Family Foundation General Motors Company General Motors Foundation $2,500 + Morgan Stanley Mr. John Bernard Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan $10,000 + Bodman LLP Mr. Harold and Mrs. JoAnn Braggs Ally Financial Mr. William and Mrs. Elizabeth Brooks Mr. Jon Barfield and Dr. Vivian Carpenter Butzel Long Mayor Dave and First Lady Yvette Bing Dakkota Integrated Systems, LLC Charter One Foundation Epoch Restaurant Group Mr. Kieth and Mrs. Serena Cockrell Eugene and Mary Anne Gargaro Fund Ms. Jo Coleman Ms. Christine Gavin-Patterson Comerica, Inc. Goldman, Sachs & Co Mr. Tyrone Davenport and Mrs. Linda Forte Greektown Casino Mr. Walter and Mrs. Retha Douglas Mr. George Johnson DTE Energy Foundation Mr. William and Mrs. Marion Jones Mr. David and Mrs. Jennifer Fischer Lear Corporation Mr. Edsel and Mrs. Cynthia Ford The Links, Inc. Oakland County Chapter Hudson Webber Foundation Mayfield Gentry Realty Advisors W. K. Kellogg Foundation Moroun Family Foundation MGM Grand Detroit New England Foundation for the Arts Michigan Humanities Council Dr. Glenda Price Richard & Jane Manoogian Foundation Mr. Roy and Mrs. Maureen Roberts Mr. Albert and Mrs. Amelia Scaglione Ms. Marjorie Rose Siebert Brandford Shank & Co., LLC United Way of Southeastern Michigan - Vanguard Health Systems Combined Federal Campaign Yazaki North America, Inc. $1,000 + $5,000 + AAA Michigan AARP Mr. Anthony Adams Art Van Furniture Ms. Rhonda and Mrs. Donna Alford Ms. Ida Austin Mr. Joseph Anderson Braylon Edwards Foundation Ms. Theresa Bailey-Baker Charter One Bank Bowman and Brooke LLP Compuware Corporation City Connect Detroit Delphi Foundation, Inc. Ms. Sandra Clemons 15 Museum Donors July 1, 2011 - June 30, 2012 The Honorable Barbara-Rose Collins BASF Corporation Dr. Julius and Mrs. Alice Combs Mr. Michael and Mrs. Barbara Bickers Detroit Memorial Park Association, Inc. Mr. Leonard Bowens Mr. Gregory Eaton Mr. Stacy Brackens Dr. David and Mrs. Sylvia Fike Ms. Corinthian Brown Mr. Benson and Mrs. Lynn Ford Mr. Harold and Mrs. Sandra Bulger G. R. N’Namdi Gallery Mr. David and Mrs. Jacqueline Burks Global Automotive Alliance Reverend Nicholas and Mrs. Doris Chenault Hood Mr. John and Mrs. Kelly Green Dr. Christina Clark Ms. Stephanie Green Mr. George and Mrs. Gloria Clark-Arnold Ms. Allo Greer Ms. Pauline Coleman Mr. Carlton and Mrs. Dawn Guthrie Mr. Arthur and Mrs. Edith Davidson Mr. Michael and Mrs. Valorie Guthrie Mr. Douglass and Dr. Shauna Diggs Dr. Barbara K. Hughes Smith Mr. Arthur Dudley Dr. Roberta Hughes Wright Ms. Zillah Fluker J.D. Knox, Inc. In Memory of Mr. Delvin Forte Mr. Gregory Jackson Mr. George and Mrs. Elaine Francis Mr. John and Mrs. Sharon James Mr. Jeffrey Fratarcangeli Mr. Mark Jannott Mr. Kala and Mrs. Shelly Gibson Ms. Chacona Johnson Mr. Marvin and Mrs. Shirley Glass Mr. Dennis and Mrs. Kendra Johnson Dr. Herman Gray Dr. Darnell and Mrs. Shirley Kaigler Mr. J. Edward and Mrs. Hannan The Honorable Damon J. Keith Ms. Felisa Hardy Mrs. Denise Lewis Mr. Kenneth Harris Links Foundation, Inc. Mr. Albert and Mrs. Kathryn Harrison Mr. Daniel Loepp Mr. Charles Harvey Ms. Barbara Mahone Mr. Ronald Hewitt Ms. Florine Mark Dr. George and Mrs. Valentine Hill Mr. Jack and Mrs. Bettye Martin Mr. N. John Scott and Dr. Sherryl Hinton Michigan First Credit Union Dr. Sharon Hobbs Ms. Juanita Moore Mrs. Vivian Hughes-Norde Mr. Melvin and Mrs. Wanda Murphy Mr. Eric and Mrs. Carol Jenkins Mrs. Jacque Nickerson Dr. Leroy Lang Mr. John Obee Lewis & Munday, P.C. Omega Psi Phi Fraternity - Nu Omega Chapter Linda Solomon Photography Mr. Huel and Mrs. Priscilla Perkins Ms. Denise Mallett Dr. Bob Pettapiece Mr. George McCrary Mr. William Pickard Dr. Ali Moiin Mr. Phillip and Mrs. Sherri Pierce In Memory of Mr. Joseph Morgan PNC Financial Services Group Mr. Eddie and Mrs. Lois Munson Mr. Gregory Reed Mr. Silas Norman, Jr. Mr. Ronald and Mrs. Miriam Reed People’s Community Church Mr. Walter and Mrs. Doris Rhea Dr. L. Kimberly Peoples Mr. George and Mrs. Diane Richards Atty. Randolph and Mrs. Priscilla Phifer Mr. Horace and Mrs. Yvonne Rodgers Mr. Paul and Mrs. Mary Piper Ms. Pamela Rodgers Mr. Robert and Mrs. Naomi Prince Mr. David and Mrs. Brenda Rudolph Mr. Leroy and Mrs. Julia Richie Mr. Robert Shumake Dr. Kellie Sanders The Skillman Foundation Mr. Thomas and Mrs. Kathryn Seabron Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Smith Mr. Paul Sears Mr. Leamon Sowell Mr. Anthony Smith Mr. Myzell and Mrs. Robin Sowell Dr. Mark and Mrs. Patricia Smith Mr. Keith Stallworth Sorosis Literary & Art Club Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church Ms. Eva and Ms. Jinaya Spivey Tapper’s Diamonds & Fine Jewelry Mr. Walter and Mrs. Lenora Stanfield Mr. Sid Taylor Dr. Bradley and Mrs. Simone Taylor Mr. James and Mrs. Charlene Thrower Mr. Michael and Ms. Sandra Taylor Mr. Reginald and Mrs. Marcia Turner In Memory of Mr. Levon Thompson TYJ LLC Mr. Thomas and Mrs. Laura Trudeau Ms. Carolynn Walton Universal Parking of Michigan LLC Mr. Roy and Mrs. Patricia Williams The Honorable JoAnn Watson Sen. Coleman Young and Ms. Annivory Calvert Mr. Walter and Mrs. Vicki Watson Mr. Ruben Wilson $500 + Wright Angel Volunteers Ms. Asmara Afework Mr. Anthony and Mrs. Ellen Zeringue Anonymous Museum Donors July 1 - November 15, 2012 $250,000 + $1,000 + City of Detroit Ms. Ida Austin Ford Motor Company Fund Auxiliary to Detroit Medical Society, Inc. Mr. John Bernard $50,000 + Mr. Barry Bess Bank of America Charitable Foundation, Inc. Mr. Michael and Mrs. Barbara Bickers General Motors Foundation Mr. Frank and Mrs. Faith Branham JPMorgan Chase & Co. Bridgewater Interiors Mr. William and Mrs. Elizabeth Brooks Ms. Corinthian Brown $25,000 + Clark Hill PLC Erb Family Foundation Mr. James and Mrs. Eva Cunningham General Motors Company Mr. Benson and Mrs. Lynn Ford MGM Grand Detroit Mr. Jeffrey Fratarcangeli Yazaki North America, Inc. Mr. Michael and Mrs. Valorie Guthrie Mr. Albert and Mrs. Kathryn B. Harrison $10,000 + In Memory of Ms. Elaine L. Hopkins Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP Fund City of Detroit Employees Dr. Roberta Hughes Wright Mr. Kieth and Mrs. Serena Cockrell Mr. Dennis and Mrs. Kendra Johnson Ms. Jo Coleman Mr. William and Mrs. Marion Jones Denso International America, Inc. The Links, Inc. - Great Lakes Chapter DTE Energy Foundation The Links, Inc. - Renaissance Chapter Edsel B. Ford II Fund Ms. Florine Mark Mr. David and Mrs. Jennifer Fischer Mr. Jack and Mrs. Bettye Martin Goldman, Sachs & Co Ms. Juanita Moore Hudson Webber Foundation Mrs. Jacque Nickerson Masco Corporation Dr. Glenda Price Richard & Jane Manoogian Foundation Mr. Howard and Mrs. Judith Sims Siebert Brandford Shank & Co., LLC Mr. Gerald Smith Mr. Anthony Snoddy $5,000 + Soave Enterprises AAA Michigan Dr. Clarence and Mrs. Oretha Stone AARP Mr. Dennis Talbert Art Van Furniture Tapper’s Diamonds & Fine Jewelry Mayor Dave and First Lady Yvette Bing The Links, Inc. - Detroit Chapter Bodman LLP UAW Ford National Program Center Braylon Edwards Foundation Mr. W. Bernard White Comerica, Inc. Mr. Richard White Compuware Corporation Dakkota Integrated Systems, LLC $500 + Mr. Walter and Mrs. Retha Douglas Anonymous Fifth Third Bank Mr. Leland Calloway Reginald Hartsfield, The Manors Skilled Ms. Pauline Coleman Nursing & Rehabilitation Centers Mr. Thomas and Mrs. Melissa Cragg James Group International, Inc. Dr. Leonard and Mrs. L. Douglas Lear Corporation Ms. Christine Gavin-Patterson Mr. Roy and Mrs. Maureen Roberts Mr. Daniel Haddad Ms. Marjorie Rose Dr. Barbara and Mr. Joseph Hughes Smith Ms. Nettie and Ms. Mary Seabrooks Ms. Stephanie Jones St. John Providence Health System Mr. Brian and Mrs. Eboni LaMar Taubman Centers, Inc. Mr. Kirk and Mrs. Wendy Lewis Dr. Lorna Thomas Mr. John Nussbaumer Dr. L. Kimberly Peoples $2,500 + Ms. Stephanie Randolph Butzel Long Mr. Walter and Mrs. Doris Rhea Detroit Metropolitan Bar Foundation Mr. Orris Rucker Frito Lay Dr. Mark and Mrs. Patricia Smith Mr. Roderick and Dr. Linda Gillum Mr. Jimmy Tyner Ms. Alma Greer The University of Michigan Isenberg Wayne County Community College Mr. George and Mrs. Carmen N’Namdi Mr. Jack and Mrs. Lynn Weaver Quicken Loans Ms. Patricia Wolshon Sen. Coleman Young and Ms. Annivory Calvert 17 Museum Partners July 1, 2011 – November 15, 2012

100 Black Men of Greater Detroit Henry Ford Institute on Multicultural Health AAA Michigan HOUR Detroit AARP Independent Television Service – ITVS ACCESS Infused PR & Events AccuGraphics InsideOut Detroit African Business Chamber of Commerce In The Mix Productions Ambassador Magazine jess Care moore Foundation Annistique Photography KANGEN Water Arab American National Museum Kids Kicking Cancer Art Detroit Now Lamar Advertising Association for the Study of African American Annie Lee Life & History (ASALH) Marriage Resource Center Beaumont Health System Meijer Best Western PLUS Sterling Inn Metro Parent Publishing B.L.A.C. Detroit magazine Michigan Chronicle Black Cinema Café Michigan Humanities Council Black Mothers’ Breastfeeding Association (BMBFA) Michigan Opera Theatre Body by Claudia Michigan Roundtable for Diversity and Inclusion Cafagna Arts and Entertainment Michigan State University CBS Outdoor Midtown Detroit, Inc. Center for the Education of Women at the MIX 92.3 FM University of Michigan Morgan Stanley Smith Barney City of Detroit Department of Health & Mother2Mother Wellness Promotion Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts Clear Channel Radio National Endowment for the Humanities Cultural Alliance of Southeastern Michigan Oakland University Curb Gardner Creative Group Omega Psi Phi Dance Theatre of Harlem One World, LLC Detroit Association of Black Storytellers Plymouth Educational Center Detroit Free Press Range of Motion Fitness Detroit Institute of Arts Shrine of the Black Madonna Cultural Center Detroit International Jazz Festival Foundation and Bookstore Detroit Jewish News Songs of Solomon Marriage Ministries Detroit Metro Convention and Visitors Bureau St. John Providence Health System The Detroit News Thomasenia Johnson, Two Left Feet Detroit Public Schools Troy Chamber of Commerce Detroit Public Television United Auto Workers (UAW) Detroit Regional Chamber Union Street Detroit Symphony Orchestra University of Detroit – Mercy Detroit Urban Debate League University of Michigan – Ann Arbor Encore Impressions University of Michigan – Dearborn Energetic Soul Urban Stringz II Charles Ezra Ferrell Wayne County Community College District First Book Wayne State University FitnessWorks Wayne State University Department of Africana Studies FM 98 WJLB WDET 101.9 FM Google WXYZ-TV Channel 7 The Heidelberg Project Weight Watchers Henry Ford Health System Board of Trustees

Elizabeth W. Brooks, Chair Kelly Green Community Activist United Way for Southeastern Michigan

J. Edward Hannan, Treasurer Joyce Hayes Giles ValStone Asset Management DTE Energy

Hiram Jackson, Secretary Ronald Hewitt Real Times Media, Inc. Community Activist

Jon E. Barfield John James LJ Holdings Investment Company James Group International, Inc.

Michael G. Bickers Dennis Johnson PNC Bank Comerica Bank

Yvette Bing James W. McGinnis, Ph.D., J.D. First Lady, City of Detroit Law Office of James McGinnis

Darrell Burks Eric Peterson PriceWaterhouseCoopers (retired) General Motors

Kieth Cockrell Maureen Roberts Bank of America Civic Leader & Philanthropist

James P. Cunningham Jimmy Settles Williams, Williams, Rattner & Plunkett, P.C. United Auto Workers

Matthew A. Davis Joni Thrower-Grundy Chase Bank Miller Canfield P.L.C.

Walter E. Douglas Sr. Carolynn Walton Avis Ford Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan

Kala J. Gibson Lynn Weaver Fifth Third Bank Yazaki North America, Inc.

Roderick Gillum Jackson Lewis, LLP.

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