A Tour of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture


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African American Museum

Our capital’s newest museum offers the most compete collection of African American history and culture to be found anywhere. Bloom dispatched Gladys DeVane and Elizabeth Mitchell to Washington, D.C., to bring back a personal account of their experience exploring this national treasure.

By Gladys DeVane, photography by Elizabeth Mitchell

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