Chief curator, Dr. Jacquelyn Days Serwer, Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), assembled the museum's art collection documenting 200 years of black visual expression. #Groundbreaker

Curator of Music and Performing Arts, Dr. Dwandalyn R. Reece, National Museum of African American History and Culture, created their inaugural music exhibition, Musical Crossroads, and co-curated the grand opening music festival, Freedom Sounds: A Community Celebration. #Groundbreaker 

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We look back at some of the events that have take place in the National Museum of African American History and Culture's first year.

Looking back at the National Museum of African American History and Culture opening which happened one year ago, on September 24, 2016.

The Smithsonian served as neighbor to the Poor People's Campaign in 1968 and still tells its story almost 50 years later.