Wonderful Women Wednesday: Sylvia H. Williams

African art scholar Sylvia H. Williams, directed the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art, 1983-1996, and was one of the few women, and the only African American woman, serving at the time as director of a major American museum. #Groundbreaker 

black and white portrait of African American woman in front of painting

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