Black History : The National Museum of African American History and Culture: Grand Opening

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Mae Reeves' Hats Hang At National Museum Of African American History And Culture


African-American women have been wearing fancy hats to church for generations. That tradition is being celebrated at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, which officially opens in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 24. Vintage turbans, caps and fascinators that span a half-century are on display — all from the shop of one woman.

Her name is Mae Reeves ...


http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswi...-african-american-history-and-culture?ref=yfp

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A visitor views a partial recreation of Mae's Millinery, a Philadelphia hat shop that once served Ella Fitzgerald and Lena Horne, at the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

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For parents and children, difficult history at African American Museum



The new National Museum of African American History and Culture is in part a celebration of black heritage, a commemoration of civil rights leaders and a reflection on aspects of the past that still cast a shadow on American society.

There’s a display featuring Muhammad Ali’s boxing gloves, a glass case containing Harriet Tubman’s lace shawl and an exhibit honoring Rosa Parks’s history-defining act of civil disobedience ...


https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...ed0efa-7c3b-11e6-ac8e-cf8e0dd91dc7_story.html

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A pair of slave shackles on display in the Slavery and Freedom Gallery at the National Museum of African American History and Culture. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)


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Museum sheds light on African American history
Washington, DC museum confronts US slavery history while highlighting African American culture



Washington DC - "There will never be a Negro president in this country," a young African American man is seen saying to James Baldwin, a renowned writer and civil rights activist in San Francisco in 1963. Baldwin assures the young man: "There will be a Negro president of this country, but it will not be the country that we are sitting in now."

This spine-tingling clip, playing at an exhibition aptly called Making a Way Out of No Way, is part of the Smithsonian's Museum of African American History and Culture, which will be inaugurated on September 24 by Barack Obama, the United States' first black president ...


http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/fe...american-history-160919015523596.html?ref=yfp

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A whip used to punish slaves on display at the Museum of African American History and Culture [Dalia Hatuqa/Al Jazeera]


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‘White Americans are much more African-American than most will admit’


... “The music, dance, distinctive foods, art and artists that people outside the United States associate with ‘American culture’ were and are originally African-American,” said an email from V.P. Franklin, professor emeritus of history at the University of California, Riverside, and editor of The Journal of African American History. “White Americans are much more African-American than most will admit” ...

Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/article102880322.html#storylink=cpy

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A TV crew documents Rock 'n' Roll legend Chuck Berry's candy-apple red 1973 Cadillac Eldorado while on display in the Musical Crossroads section of the Culture Galleries at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2016. Ken Cedeno McClatchy


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