SAAACAM is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization formed to collect, maintain, disseminate, and interpret authentic artifacts from the African Diaspora related to the region’s history in a community-based digital archive and exhibition area.
The untold history of San Antonio’s African descendants is rich and intricately tied to the stories of Spaniards, Mexicans, Germans and Canary Island populations who helped build this great city. The San Antonio African American Community Archive and Museum (SAAACAM) is working in a grassroots effort to uncover the legacy that reaches back to the early days of the Spanish colonists and Texas Republic.
SAAACAM ensures the region’s history is shared holistically with an African American lens. Individuals are empowered to curate their own archives and cultivate a community-driven museum of digitized, audiovisual exhibits. Collective legacies are compiled and interpreted in the context of the City of San Antonio, Bexar County, and the entire southwestern United States. SAAACAM serves as a proactive steward of cultural and physical preservation of historic African American resources.
SAAACAM is a member of the Association of African American Museums, the American Alliance of Museums, the American Association for State and Local History, Texas Association of Museums, the North American Reciprocal Museum Program and the Oral History Association.
