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Reviewed on September 1, 2016 | Social Sciences
To celebrate and commemorate the September 2016 opening of the most recent Smithsonian Institution museum, the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) in Washington, DC, commissioned this collection of 27 essays. Adopting as a title the opening lines of a Langston Hughes poem, editor Kinshasha Holman Conwill (deputy director, NMAAHC) divides the work into chapters that span slavery to emancipation, Jim Crow and the civil rights move...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

