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Museum director: Lonnie G. Bunch, president of the Chicago Historical Society for the last four years, has been named founding director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture that the Smithsonian Institution plans to build in Washington. Bunch, 52, was the curator of history at the California African American Museum in Los Angeles from 1983 to 1989, then held a series of positions at the Smithsonian before moving to the Chicago job.
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