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Sept. 23, 2024
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Civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks’ dress is on display in the concourse galleries.
(Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images)When the newest Smithsonian museum opens a week from now with a dedication led by President Obama and attended by former President George W. Bush, it will weave stories of despair in with those of triumph, packing more than 400 years of history into its 105,000 feet of exhibition space sitting atop five acres of the mall’s last remaining museum plot.
A statue of Clara Brown, who was born a slave in Virginia around 1800. Brown traveled to Colorado after she was freed when her slaveowner died in 1856 and established a successful laundry business.
(Susan Walsh / Associated Press)Preparations are finalized for the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington.
(Susan Walsh / Associated Press)A theater showing a film about the history of blacks in baseball is part of the sports exhibit at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.
(Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images)A uniform belonging to retired U.S. Army Gen. Colin Powell is in the Military History Gallery.
(Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images)A vintage, open-cockpit biplane was used at Alabama’s Tuskegee Institute to train African American pilots for Army Air Corps service during World War II.
(Preston Keres / AFP/Getty Images)Instruments, costumes and other artifacts fill the Taking the Stage section of the fourth floor Culture Galleries at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.
(Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images)Instruments, costumes and other artifacts, including the Funkadelic P-Funk Mothership, fill the in the Musical Crossroads section.
(Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images)A pair of slave shackles are on display in the Slavery and Freedom Gallery.
(Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images)Nine of the 10 Olympic medals won by American track and field athlete Carl Lewis are on display in the Power of Place exhibition.
(Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images)A helmet from the World War I Harlem Hellfighters.
(Preston Keres / AFP/Getty Images)The Washington Monument is framed by a window at the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
(Susan Walsh / Associated Press)Sept. 23, 2024