Smithsonian black history museum started
Journal Gazette Thursday 23rd February, 2012
WASHINGTON – Frederick Douglass was black and that was enough for the Smithsonian Institution to bar the famed abolitionist from speaking at a lecture series intended to convince President Abraham Lincoln that he should end slavery as war divided the nation in February 1862. A century and a half later, the countrys first black president...

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