Frederick Douglass and Sojurner Truth are here, of course, but so are wax versions of America's three black astronauts and the first black to shoot a polar bear.
If you don't want to leave the comforts of urban life to see the kind of art that crazy, loner farmers make in the outlands, then this is the museum for you.
The Madonna of the Trail statue is one of twelve 18-foot tall tributes to the pioneer women who traveled west with their crazy husbands. [Dec 2005 - Reported temporarily removed for construction.]