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• Building an historic collection at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture

  By Carol SimmonsNovember 17, 2016

  

  The opening of the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African American History and Culture on the National Mall in September followed more than a century of efforts to recognize formally in our nation’s Capital the contributions of black Americans in the making, building, growth and life of this country.