The National Museum of African American History and Culture-- Part 1

From the September 2016 AARP Bulletin  "A Dream Realized" by David Frank.

"I, too, am America."  This is a line from Langston Hughes' 1925 poem "I, Too."  It is prominently displayed at this new museum, slated to open in October 2016, in Washington, D.C..

This museum has been a hundred years in the making.  In 1915, a group of black Civil War veterans attended a reunion in Washington, D.C., and called for the creation of a memorial there to recognize black achievements.

But, it wasn't until 2003 that the museum was established by Congress as part of the Smithsonian Institution and groundbreaking did not take place until 2012.

--Cooter