Mythos, memory, and history : African American preservation efforts, 1820-1990

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Summary

Traces the history of efforts to document and preserve African American history, with a detailed analysis of the preservation of objects, folklore, music, governmental records, and other materials over the 19th and 20th centuries.

Subject

  • African American Museum Project
  • Center for African American History & Culture (U.S.)
  • National African American Museum (U.S.)
  • National Museum of African American History and Culture
  • National African American Museum Project

Category

Smithsonian History Bibliography

Notes

Ruffins is a curator at the National Museum of American History

Contained within

Museums and communities : the politics of public culture (Book.)

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

1992

Topic

  • Historic preservation
  • Collectors and collecting
  • Museums
  • History
  • Protection
  • Cultural property
  • Museums--History
  • African Americans--History
  • Cultural property--Protection

Physical description

Number of pages : 105; Page numbers : 506-611

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