MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- A church in northwest Milwaukee is honoring black history in America with a new museum.

"At one time we weren't even able to sit in the front of the bus, at one time we were only able to drink fountains that read 'for colored people only', at one time we weren't able to enter the front door," said Michelle Pitts-Luckett, Overseer at Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church.

Luckett says she started the exhibit to remind and educate her fellow members at Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church.

"There's a lot in our history that lives today and carries us through our future. Today we have come so far, and I refuse as an individual to allow our history to be erased," said Luckett.

Luckett says she wants people how far black history and culture has come over the years.

"I would hope people would allow this to resonate in their hearts their minds and souls when you can just sit and know where you can from it will take you where you need to go," said Luckett.

While members of the church read the signs before they head into service, Luckett, says she wants younger generations to know what their ancestors had to fight for.

"We have some schools that will be coming in. I would hope that its very educational and then I would hope that they understand where we have come from and not just that but learn to respect who they are," said Luckett.

Charlotta Pritchett is the principal of Assata High School; she says her students will be seeing the museum on a school assignment.

"I was just so overwhelmed it almost brought tears to my eyes. It reminded me of a mini–African American history museum similar to the one in Washington D.C.

It takes me back to the generation of where our forefathers and founders, the Harriet Tubmans, Martin Luther Kings the Rosa Parks these are individual that our students were not aware of," said Pritchett.

Luckett says as the kids walk through the exhibit, she hopes it inspires them. 

"When you see it, you know where we have come from and where we are going," said Luckett.

She says she wants to find a place to display the exhibit so it's up beyond Black History Month.