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Journey through the lens of the African American experience. #APeoplesJourney, #ANationsStory Legal: https://t.co/3sIRJi7PRE • @NMAAHCdirector
Washington, DC, USA
Joined May 2009
Join us this July for powerful programs, cultural workshops & family fun! . July 17: Heritage, Design & Culture in the Black Home . July 19: Story Time – Grandma’s Records . 🔗 Discover more and register: #APeoplesJourney #ANationsStory
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Join Dr. Michelle Joan Wilkerson in conversation with artists & designers Robert Earl Paige, Renée Stout, @JomoTariku, and Hadiya Williams on heritage, design & belonging. 📚 . Signed publications available. 🔗Register:
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#OnThisDay in 1865, General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, TX to read Order No. 3, which affirmed the end of slavery in the states of the former Confederacy. This momentous occasion has been celebrated as #Juneteenth — a combination of “June” & “19th” — for over 150 years.
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James Weldon Johnson was a writer and civil rights activist born #OTD to an African American father & a Bahamian mother. He wrote the poem “Lift Every Voice” in 1899 that was later adopted as the Negro National Anthem. Johnson was the first Black professor at New York University.
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Happy Father's Day to all fathers and father-figures, from our family to yours! #FathersDay #HappyFathersDay
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Tomorrow is the last chance to apply for our museum’s Fall 2025 internships! 📖.
📖 Applications are now open for our museum's ️Fall 2025 internships! . "I loved and still cherish my internship at NMAAHC. It was the highlight of my undergraduate career.” - Jada A., Curatorial Internship intern (2019). Apply today:
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The duo is depicted as powerful heroines who have liberated their spaces with ingenuity, skill, and beauty. Learn more about liberators like Beal:
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Endia Beal is internationally known for her photographic narratives and video testimonies that examine the personal stories of women of color working within the corporate space. In the archival pigment print titled “Sabrina and Katrina,” Beal shows two 23-year-old sisters.
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The longest-serving U.S. diplomat in South Africa, she established critical relations with Mandela and the African National Congress during and after the dismantling of apartheid. Learn more about liberators like Bridgewater:
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A career Foreign Service Officer, Ambassador Pamela Bridgewater (ret.) served in South Africa during the anti-apartheid movement, which led to the election of President Nelson Mandela in 1994.
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The infectious joy in his music, the electric performances with Sly and the Family Stone, and his messages anchored in the Black experience leave an enduring legacy across generations. Learn more about his life and legacy:
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Today, we remember music pioneer and visionary Sylvester “Sly Stone” Stewart. With his revolutionary vision for inclusivity among people and sounds, Stone pioneered a fusion of soul, rock, psychedelia, and gospel that had a profound and lasting impact on popular music.
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Despite her efforts to stay out of the limelight, Robinson was among a group of Montgomery Bus Boycott leaders arrested but never tried. She was also targeted with several acts of intimidation. Learn more about liberators like Robinson:
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In Montgomery, she became active in the Women's Political Council (WPC), a local civic organization for African American professional women that was dedicated to fostering women's involvement in civic affairs, increasing voter registration in the city's black community.
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She taught in the Macon, Georgia, public schools for five years while earning a master's degree from Atlanta University. She also pursued English studies at Columbia University in New York City. She moved to Montgomery in 1949 to teach at Alabama State College.
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Jo Ann Robinson distinguished herself early as the valedictorian of her high school class. She became the first person in her family to graduate from college and fulfilled her dream of becoming a teacher.
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Born on #OnThisDay in Port of Spain, Trinidad, Hazel Scott emerged as a world-renowned Black pianist, singer and actress whose impact resonates to this day.
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As a traveling abolitionist for the Maine Anti-Slavery Society, she skillfully infused her poetry into her human rights speeches. Her writings and lectures made Harper one of the first popularizers of African American protest poetry. More:
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Born in Baltimore, Maryland, to free parents, Frances E. W. Harper (1825–1911) was a teacher, writer, and orator known for her prolific literary works and activism on behalf of women and the enslaved.
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For African Americans, liberation includes a rebirth of consciousness & self-identity that bridges the past, informs the present, & shapes the future. Explore stories of liberators whose ingenuity, creativity, and vitality scorched new paths:
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