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Dorothy Joan Gray ([personal profile] djgray) wrote2016-10-01 05:42 pm

refinery29: It’s been over a hundred years in

refinery29:

It’s been over a hundred years in the making, but the new Smithsonian museum celebrating Black history finally opened this weekend

Way back in 1929, President Hoover approved a proposal for a National Memorial Building for African American achievements in arts and sciences — but Congress did not. Congress didn’t officially pass an act to erect a federally owned museum until 2003. Ground wasn’t broken until nine years later, with a little help from President Obama.

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