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      Celebrating One Year and Many More to Come: National Museum of African American History and Culture

      • Date: September 26, 2017
      • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
      • Description: Just two days ago, the Smithsonian celebrated the one-year anniversary of the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC). It seems like just yesterday that we were all waiting for the doors to open; yet, so much has happened in the past year. Since President Barack Obama rang the bell that opened the museum, long lines and happy faces are

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      National Museum of African American History and Culture Opens

      • Date: September 24, 2016

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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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      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Shireen L. Dodson

      • Date: February 13, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Shireen L. Dodson worked as Comptroller for the Smithsonian Institution (1986–1992), Associate Director for Administration and Planning at the National African-American Museum Project (1992–1995), and Associate Director for Administration at the Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture (1995–2000). #Groundbreaker

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      Resolution Calling for National African American Museum

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        An Act to Establish a National Museum of African American History and Culture

        • Date: 2004 December 16, 2003 20th century 1783-1865 1865-1898 Civil War, 1861-1865 1933-1945
        • Creator: 108th Congress, Sess. 1, 2003
        • Creator: 108th Congress, Sess. 1, 2003

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      • SI History Chronology

        National Museum of African American History and Culture Site Selected

        • Date: January 30, 2006

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        Wonderful Women Wednesday: Elaine Heumann Gurian

        • Date: July 1, 2020
        • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
        • Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.

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      • SI History Bibliography

        A Place of our Own: The National Museum of African American History and Culture

        • Date: 2015 Civil War, 1861-1865
        • Creator: Dodson, Howard
        • Creator: Dodson, Howard

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        Remembering the Work of Claudine K. Brown

        • Date: March 23, 2021
        • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
        • Description: In a 1991 issue of the Prophet, the Smithsonian African American Association’s newsletter, Claudine Kinard Brown called on staff to support Black museums across the country.

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        Museums

        • Date: March 9, 2011
        • Description: Information on the history of the Smithsonian's museums representing art, history, and culture.

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      • SI History Chronology

        National Museum of African American History and Culture Is Created

        • Date: December 16, 2003

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