"Statue of Freedom," the plaster figure used to cast the statue on top of the U.S. Capitol, in the rotunda of the Arts and Industries Building while being dismantled for storage, February 27, 1967.

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On the one hand, we had the civil rights leadership that was arguing over Black power. On the other hand, we had the people coming in and burning the Martin Luther King banner. That was quite a shocking thing. It was a shocking year in 1968. - Keith E. Melder, 1999

Curator Dr. Karen Milbourne, National Museum of African Art, studies the arts of western Zambia and contemporary African art. Her exhibition "Visionary: Viewpoints on Africa's Arts" won an AAMC Excellence in Exhibitions award. #Groundbreaker

Marie Malaro, 1933-2018, entered law in 1957 when few women were admitted to the bar, and then taught generations of museum professionals how law and ethics applied to their work every day.

Officer Kenneth Brewster, chief of the Canine Branch of Protection Services, and Doberman-German shepherd "John" placed second and third place in the annual metropolitan K-9 Trials sponsored by the U.S. Police Canine Association, April 6, 1976, by Richard Farrar.

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Learn more about Secretary Robert Adams through his oral histories, which are newly available for research.