Results for "African American Groundbreakers at the Smithsonian: Challenges and Achievements (Online exhibition)"
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African American Groundbreakers at the Smithsonian: Challenges and Achievements
- Date: September 19, 2016
- Description: Explore more than 150 years of African American history at the Smithsonian. From the founding of the Smithsonian in 1846, African Americans have made substantive, but often unacknowledged, contributions to the Smithsonian. Explore the contributions African American employees at the Smithsonian have made to the Institution and the challenges they have faced.
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African American Groundbreakers at the Smithsonian: Challenges and Achievements
- Date: August 19, 2016
- Description: From the founding of the Smithsonian in 1846, African Americans have made substantive, but often unacknowledged, contributions to the Smithsonian. Explore the contributions African American employees at the Smithsonian have made to the Institution and the challenges they have faced. [edan-image:id=siris_sic_8309,size=300,left]The City of Washington ended the slave trade in
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American Negro Artists (National Gallery of Art, 1929-1930)
- Date: August 25, 2016
- Description: On May 16, 1929, an exhibition of American Negro Artists opened on the ground floor of the Smithsonian’s US National Museum building. The exhibition featured fifty-one works by twenty-seven black sculptors and painters who won a juried competition sponsored by the Harmon Foundation.1Though the work selected remained distant from the most radical new work being created by
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Happy Anniversary, National Museum of African American History and Culture!
- Date: September 28, 2017
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: A year ago on September 24, 2016, the Smithsonian gained a new museum — the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Since then, 2.5 million people have visited the museum. In honor of their historic opening, we look back at photographer Michael Barnes' favorite images from the year.[view:sia_slideshow==77271]Related ResourcesHistory of the National Museum of
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SIA Acc. 22-019, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Website Records, 2009-2020
- Date: 2009 2009-2020
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Archives
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The Life and Legacy of Alphonso Lorenzo Jones
- Date: February 17, 2022
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Alphonso Lorenzo Jones joined the Smithsonian in 1924 as a mechanic. He retired 41 years later as the chief of the Institution’s duplicating office.
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SIA RU000518, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, Exhibition Catalogs, 1965-1982
- Date: 1965 1965-1982
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Traveling Exhibition Service
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Lonnie Bunch
- Date: August 23, 2016
- Description: Historian Lonnie Bunch is the founding director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Smithsonian’s 19th museum. Growing up with a love of history and a sense that African Americans deserved “a voice,” his education and early career gave him the research, museum, and management experience that allowed him to successfully develop an idea into a
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Malcolm Watkins
- Date: August 19, 2016
- Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_8629,size=350,left]C. Malcolm Watkins was an unlikely revolutionary; nevertheless, he would lead a vanguard of curators who brought African American history into the Smithsonian in the 1960s and 1970s. C. Malcolm Watkins, Smithsonian curator and cultural historian, brought African American history into the Smithsonian in the 1960s and 1970s. Attentive