Description: On June 16, 2006, Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum changed its name for the third time, signaling a renewed focus on local Black history and beyond.
Description: [view in Spanish]The exhibition from which this website is derived was exhibited at the Inter-American Development Bank Cultural Center Gallery in 1996 to commemorate the Smithsonian Institution's 150th anniversary.This online exhibition was developed and written by a working group consisting of Dr. Jane MacLaren Walsh, Dr. Pamela M. Henson, and Dr. Margaret R. Dittemore and
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
Description: Friday, September 15th, 2017 marks the 50th Anniversary of the opening of the Anacostia Community Museum. Originally named the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum, Secretary Ripley envisioned this as a place to reach out to black residents of Washington, DC who were not seeing themselves in the museums on the Mall. Reporting on the opening of the museum, Secretary Ripley writes that
Description: [view in English]La exposición de la que proviene este website fue exhibida en la Galería del Centro Cultural del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo en 1996 para conmemorar el 150 aniversario de la institución Smithsonian.Esta exhibición electrónica fue creada y escrita por un grupo de trabajo constituído por la Dra. Jane MacLaren Walsh, Dra. Pamela M. Henson, y Dra. Margaret