Inaugurated by Barack Obama in 2016, this Smithsonian Insitution member is home to a wealth of exhibits depicting the struggles and eventaul triumphs of black Americans, from their African origins through the trans-Atlantic slave trade; brutal slavery in the United States; oppression in the South from the post-Civil-War through the Jim Crow period; the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s (during which of course Dr. King loomed large indeed); and up to the present day. Both heartbreaking and inspiring.
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