September 24th, 2016
(An Important Moment in History) "This weekend, we’ll dedicate the newest American icon on our National Mall—the National Museum of African American History and Culture. It’s a beautiful building, five stories high and some 70 feet below the ground, situated just across the street from the Washington Monument. And this museum tells a story of America that hasn’t always taken a front seat in our national narrative. As a people, we’ve rightfully passed on the tales of the giants who built this country. But too often, willful or not, we’ve chosen to gloss over or ignore entirely the experience of millions upon millions of others." --President Obama on the opening of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture: http://go.wh.gov/NMAAHC
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National Museum of African American History & Culture Opens!! |
Jacob Lawrence, the Migration Series, 1940-41. Panel 3:
“In every town Negroes were leaving by the hundreds to go North and enter into Northern industry." |
Panel 58:“In the North the Negro had better educational facilities.”
Jacob Lawrence, the Migration Series, 1940-41. Panel 22: “Another of the social causes of the migrants’ leaving was that at times they did not feel safe, or it was not the best thing to be found on the streets late at night...”
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