Our Opening Year An Overview Our first full year of operation left us excited and proud to see From the the National Museum of African American History and Culture changing the way people learn about the African American Director experience and the myriad ways it shapes our nation and the world.
3 From the Director 19 Creating Collaborations There are two things that make the social media. Elementary school teachers, Many—nearly 200,000—chose to do more Contents Smithsonian’s National Museum of African learning innovative ways to teach their than visit; they stepped forward to 4 By the Numbers 22 Notable Accessions American History and Culture special: The pre-teen students the painful history of become members who supported and people built it and the people turned racism, made the Museum a cornerstone championed the museum. And for that, 5 In the News 24 Exploring Our History out—in staggering numbers—to see it. of education. There were also young adult we are eternally grateful. visitors, launching their professional careers 7 Inspiring Generations 27 Investing in the Future During our first year, nearly three million and choosing to make their first charitable This is a museum with a mission. It visited—that is roughly 7,000 people per donations to this new national treasure. is a museum living out a commitment to 11 Sharing the Knowledge 28 Recognizing our Donors day. They came from across the country and educate, celebrate, engage and create. It is a 14 Paying Tribute 31 Advisory Council around the world, including nations in Africa, What brought them here? Twelve inaugural museum providing a space to honor the past the Caribbean and Europe. Many were exhibitions and three temporary exhibitions; and reflect on it. visiting a museum for the first time in treasured artifacts, including an early portrait their lives. of Underground Railroad conductor Harriet Thank you for your continued support. Tubman; award-winning interactive kiosks; We ask that you join us in celebrating our Visitors included senior citizens who came and 70 diverse public programs, including remarkable opening year. with their grandchildren, quite literally film screenings and panel discussions, from bridged the lived experiences of one genera- Curtis Mayfield and James Baldwin to the Lonnie G. Bunch, III tion with the exuberance and expectancy of Little Rock Nine and the Tuskegee Airmen. Founding Director another. There were teenagers visiting with National Museum of African American their peers and sharing their excitement via History and Culture 3 By the Numbers In the News ENGAGING VISITORS
Nearly 40,000 objects in Museum collection About 3,000 objects on display 10,000 collection objects available online Average length of visit: 4.5 hours 12 inaugural exhibitions 3 temporary exhibitions 70 public programs Hosted more than 30,000 student groups EARNING DISTINCTION
2017 Award for Excellence in Architecture, American Institute of Architects (AIA|DC) 2017 Thea Award for Outstanding Achievement, Themed Entertainment Association 2017 James Beard Nominee, Best New Restaurant, James Beard Foundation 2017 Gold MUSE Award, Interactive Kiosk Category, American Alliance of Museums 2017 Best Teaching Mobile App, American Association of School Librarians 2017 People’s Choice for Website Design, Webby Awards 2017 NAACP Image Award, NAACP (Lonnie Bunch) 2017 XCEL Award, BLACK ENTERPRISE (Lonnie Bunch) I felt proud to be African American and “ walk through here and see so many years of perseverance, struggle, and overcoming a lot of different things, but alsosuccess . “ That’s what the Museum represents.
CANDACE PARKER, MUSEUM VISITOR
Within its first full year of operation, there was little doubt Inspiring that the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture had become a cultural touchstone for Generations America and the world.
In the first year, the Museum’s critically critically about the history I’m witnessing and acclaimed exhibitions, provocative public what is or is not included in it.” programs and dynamic digital interactives drew a tidal wave of nearly three million Visitors were immersed in 12 inaugural visitors from across the country and and three temporary exhibitions focusing around the globe. And the museum’s on broad themes of history, culture and dwell time, the length of time a visitor stays community. Many of the more than 3,000 in a museum, was unparalleled—averaging artifacts on display elicited emotional four and a half hours or more on weekends, responses from visitors who shared their compared to 75 minutes to two hours for reflections through letters, social media most museums. and more than 39,000 personal videos. For instance, thousands wept upon seeing a In the words of one visitor: “As a white pair of tiny shackles—less than two inches person, it was an educational experience to in diameter and designed for an enslaved see history, of which I had learned the most child. Others laughed with excitement while basic outline, fleshed out and given much visiting the Robert Frederick Smith A visitor comes prepared to document her more context. Seeing it all together made Explore Your Family History Center visit to the Museum. Young visitors engage with a touch me realize just how much I didn’t know. It and uncovering little-known facts about screen in the “Power of Place” also gave me enough background to think ancestors they did not know they had. exhibition in the Community Galleries. 6 7 Above: A visitor is captivated by items on view The temporary exhibitions also drew Similarly, “Everyday Beauty,” within As soon as it opened, the Museum in the “More Than a Picture” exhibition. The tremendous positive responses. “More Than the Museum’s Earl W. and Amanda became the go-to repository and exhibition opened May 5, 2017, the first in the a Picture,” the inaugural exhibition in the Stafford Center for African American added to its collection of nearly 40,000 Special Exhibitions Gallery. Museum’s Special Exhibitions Gallery, ex- Media Arts, featured 100 images and objects. New acquisitions included: Above right: A visitor looks at photos plored ways photographs reflect important rarely seen films from the Museum’s capturing everyday people through several moments in history and memory, and how growing photography and moving image —The political and cultural memorabilia generations that paint a picture of a diverse they shape the understanding of African collection, and chronicling the humanity collection of Julian Bond; culture in the “Everyday Beauty” exhibition. American experiences. The 150 photos and dignity of black life through five themes: —The Howland photo album, including a featured in the exhibition included works by Self-preservation, Courtship and Family, Faith previously unknown photograph of Harriet both notable and amateur photographers and Activism, Education and Uplift, and Work Tubman taken before she had turned 50 and incorporated thematic images; portraits and Play. “Everyday Beauty” challenged (a joint acquisition with the Library of of recognizable black figures, such as negative stereotypes and provided nuanced Congress); and Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. DuBois and examinations of black homeownership, —The personal effects and oral history Rosa Parks; as well as depictions of African higher education, family gatherings and of Albert Woodfox, a longtime inmate of Americans in everyday life. Visitors voiced entrepreneurship. Louisiana’s state penitentiary, known as their pride and enthusiasm after seeing their Angola. Carte-de-visite portrait of Harriet Tubman, Collection of the Smithsonian lived experiences captured and displayed in National Museum of African American History and Culture shared with the this exhibition. Library of Congress
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Visitors explore inspirational quotes in contemplative court. Learning your history gives you a sense “ of value in this country; this type of information has not been readily available, so it’s a great thing to be in the building. “ VICTOR PURCELL, MUSEUM VISITOR
Sharing the The Museum established a reputation early on for telling the unvarnished truth about the African American experience. As soon as it opened, the Museum became the go-to repository for Knowledge and authority on African American life past and present.
With 42 billion media impressions context—and expanded the discourses on in 2017, the Museum’s exhibitions, public lynching and social justice in the wake of a programs, centers of study, Sweet Home rising signs of racial intolerance. Café and educational initiatives extended to new online audiences around the world. Additionally, the Museum’s Education The Museum shifted, changed and provided Department hosted a series of workshops historical context to national conversations designed to assist teachers in introducing on race and social justice. Print and and engaging students in dialogue about broadcast features underscored, above all, race and culture. Programming such that the African American story is an as “Let’s Talk!” offered digital resources American story. to facilitate positive exchanges. NMAAHC educators shared their groundbreaking work Features and general news stories, including with museums worldwide in the Journal of opinion editorials in The New York Times Museum Education. The March 2017 issue, (“A Noose at the Smithsonian Brings History “Race, Dialogue and Inclusion: A Museum on Visitors learn about the Middle Passage in the Back to Life”) and The Washington Post the National Stage,” was authored solely by “Slavery and Freedom” exhibition. (“Protests in Sports Aren’t New at All”), the Museum’s Education Department. authored by founding director Lonnie Bunch, provided scholarly insight and historical 10 11 The Atlantic’s national correspondent Ta-Nehisi Coates and journalist Michele Norris discussing several of the essays featured in his latest book, We Were Eight Years In Power: An American Tragedy.
Book discussions, film screenings, tism and courage among African Americans Resurrection City and the Poor People’s Campaign concerts, staged readings and dance throughout military history—from the Civil of 1968, Louisiana’s Angola Prison, African performances captured the attention War to the Iraq War. Other titles released in- American athletes, and Cold War politics. of audiences of all ages. For one such clude From No Return: The 221-Year Journey program, the Museum collaborated with of the Slave Ship São José; Dream a World NMAAHC held its first “Morning at the Museum” The Atlantic to host a conversation with Anew: The African American Experience and program for families with children with cognitive Ta-Nehisi Coates, a MacArthur Fellow and the Shaping of America; and The Official or sensory processing disabilities. The Museum National Book Award winner, about his latest Guide to the Smithsonian National Museum opened early to welcome more than 700 work, We Were Eight Years in Power: An of African American History and Culture; and visitors—a record for this Smithsonian-wide American Tragedy. Coates discussed his col- The National Museum of African American program. lection of essays in which he revisited each History and Culture: A Souvenir Book. These of President Barack Obama’s eight years in publications are available to purchase at Other educational opportunities offered through- office through his personal experiences. the Museum Store or by visiting the online out the year included workshops and professional Smithsonian Store. development programs that attracted more than Book publishing remained a high priority for 500 early childhood educators and museum the Museum. Fighting for Freedom, the fifth The Museum’s curators shared their professionals. The Museum provided a “Pop-up volume in the Museum’s Double Exposure passions and expertise as contributors Story Time and Reading Room” to audiences series, used searing photographs from the to a number of scholarly journals that included adults and children. A student film NMAAHC collection to tell stories of patrio- and books. Topics were as diverse as competition ended with the screening of 25 short films in celebration of National History Day. 12
You need to spend more than a day here. Just like soak up everything that’s inside “ of here and within our culture. Realize the strength that we have, how far we’ve come “but respect it... respect the past, respect our ancestors, and do what you can to not let history repeat itself.
KELLY ROWLAND, SINGER / SONGWRITER / ACTRESS
Paying NMAAHC shows how core American values like resiliency and optimism are deeply rooted in Tribute African American history and culture.
The Museum recognized the sacrifice The Tuskegee Airmen served with distinction and bravery of the Little Rock Nine who in World War II as members of the U.S. integrated Little Rock, Arkansas’ Central Army Air Corps, eventually winning the High School in 1957. Six of the Little Rock Congressional Gold Medal. An open cockpit Nine participated in a panel discussion, biplane used to train the airmen for bomber “Reflections of the Little Rock Nine, 1957–2017.” escort duty is on display at the Museum and The panel discussion, like many held at the is one of the few remaining 1940s aircraft Museum, drew more than three hundred with direct ties to the legendary pilots. visitors. The panel engaged visitors in a lively discussion about their experience as young Shining a spotlight on unsung “sheroes” Above: Tuskegee Airmen recount stories from students during that tumultuous time in of American history was the goal of the their service in the U.S. Army Air Corps during the nation’s history. They also explored the #HiddenHerstory social media campaign. World War II. U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision on This series raised awareness about Brown v. Board of Education, which banned lesser-known African American women Opposite: Collage featured in the segregated schools and the impact of who broke barriers and blazed new trails, #HiddenHerstory social media campaign. integration on American education. including Annie Minerva Turnbo Malone, founder of the Poro Method hair styling The Museum gave center stage to a system, and The Leesburg Stockade Girls, group of Tuskegee Airmen, who told a group of 15 young females arrested and riveting stories of the courage they imprisoned in a Leesburg, Georgia, stockade mustered and racism they endured for challenging segregation laws. as the country’s first black military aviators. 14 Social Media GLOBAL Highlights OUTREACH
Nearly 3 million visitors—about More than 1,100 international visitors 7,000 per day
Sample of Countries Represented: Canada, China, Cuba, Egypt, Benin, Ireland, Haiti, Museum website: Latvia, Germany, Romania, Turkmenistan, United 4.5 million visitors Kingdom and 10,000 daily active users
EXPANDING OUR COMMUNITY
Visits from nearly Nearly 20 professional sports teams 200,000 Museum from MLB and the NBA, NFL and members WNBA as part of the Museum’s Game Changer initiative
613,308 social media fans Visitor Services Volunteers 5 million interactions per month 230 60,000 mobile app downloads 105 special events 500,000 views 16 50,000 active users 17
With the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Smithsonian deepens its commitment to “ telling America’s story in a far more inclusive “and comprehensive way. We see that Native American history, African American history, the histories of all Americans are inextricably bound together.
KEVIN GOVER, DIRECTOR, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN
Celebrating The National Museum of African American History and Culture joined forces with other Smithsonian Collaborations museums to create powerful exhibitions.
The National Museum of American History March on Washington, 1963,” an exhibition and Culture presented its “City of Hope: that explored the historical context of Resurrection City and the 1968 Poor People’s these two events, their accomplishments Campaign,” at the National Museum of and limitations, and their impact on the American History (NMAH). The exhibition generations that followed. commemorated the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s final human rights Another collaboration was “Many Lenses”, campaign. It was designed to call attention an online exhibition developed by curators to the poverty that crippled millions of from NMAAHC, the National Museum of the Americans—blacks, whites, Native Americans American Indian and the National Museum and Hispanics. The show included rare of American History. This exhibition archival film footage from 1968 and wooden focused on various objects drawn from each tent panels and colorful murals created museum’s collection. The curators sought Painted plywood panels from the and used by some of the nearly 3,000 to demonstrate how perspectives—based Hunger’s Wall mural that was created people who occupied the National Mall in on areas of expertise, lived experiences, and displayed in the Resurrection City Sweet Home Café executive chef Jerome encampment on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., for six weeks. and cultural backgrounds—result in Grant (left) shares a recipe with NBC’s Craig Washington, D.C. during the summer varying interpretations of art, artifacts Melvin on the Today show. of 1968. NMAAHC also collaborated with NMAH and ephemera. This online forum also to present “Changing America: The provided educators and students the 18 Emancipation Proclamation, 1863 and the opportunity to see the coexistence of 19 A visitor learns about traveling in the differing, and sometimes even opposing, the American Alliance of Museums. An average of five million people a month historians. The Kickstarter campaign raised Inside the Smithsonian Anthology of Hip- segregated Jim Crow South in the award- interpretations of objects. The Museum’s virtual exhibition, “A Look engaged with the Museum’s Facebook, $368,841 from 2,804 donors—more than Hop and Rap. The anthology is expected be released in the summer of 2019. Photograph winning “Follow the Green Book” interactive. at the Black Fashion Museum Collection Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat social $100,000 over the original goal of $250,000. by Michael G. Stewart and Jati Lindsay A Digital-First Museum and Designer Peter Davy,” brought global media channels. Through creative use of State-of-the-art technology—including 155 attention to the lives and work of Lois K. hashtag narratives, compelling stories and The #SmithsonianCypher, which was part video programs, 50 touch-screen interactive Alexander-Lane, founder of the Black Fashion visual media, the Museum sparked, led of the Museum’s Kickstarter campaign, broke stations and 14 tablet-based interactive Museum in Harlem and Washington, D.C., and supported marginalized voices in new ground on social media. Designed to stations—gave visitors hands-on connec- and Caribbean-born Davy. It was part of the the digital sphere. #APeoplesJourney promote the Hip-Hop and Rap Kickstarter tions to history. “We Wear Culture” project, a partnership highlighted stories of African Americans campaign, it drew the attention of 241 million with Google Cultural Institute and 180 from the past and present while people on Twitter. The Museum invited “Follow the Green Book,” an interactive 1949 cultural institutions around the world. #ANationsStory inserted the African people to create rap lyrics echoing a Buick sedan with a touch-screen dashboard, American experience into commonly known traditional rap cypher. Among those who shows the challenges African Americans The Webby Award-winning website events from American history and culture. accepted the challenge was composer and faced when traveling during the Jim Crow gave more than 3.4 million users playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator of era. The interactive documents strategies access to the Museum’s collection of One such example is the Kickstarter the Tony Award-winning musical Hamilton black travelers used to find food, gas and more than 10,000 digitized objects campaign, a digital initiative to raise money who tweeted “Artifacts on wax. Platinum motels when most businesses would not and collection stories. More than 60,000 to produce the Smithsonian Anthology of plaques on tracks. Hamiltonian @ serve black customers. Praised for its users downloaded the Museum’s “Mobile Hip-Hop and Rap. Due out in summer 2019, Smithsonian got facts on facts.” creative use of media and technology, the Stories” app, named one of the Best Apps the package will contain 120 tracks of music interactive received the 2017 Gold MUSE for Teaching & Learning by the American on nine CDs and a 300-page book with 10 20 Award in the interactive kiosk category from Association of School Librarians. essays written by hip-hop artists and music 21 Notable Accessions Dress worn by Viola Davis to the 2015 Emmy Awards ceremony Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Viola Davis
“I AM A MAN” placard carried by Arthur J. Schmidt in Martin Luther King Jr. memorial march, Memphis, 1968 Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Arthur J. “Bud” Schmidt Untitled (Wash Day: Scrubbing the Clothes) by Clementine Hunter Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift from the Collection of Sabra Brown Martin, © Cane River Art Corporation
Violin owned by Ginger Smock Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Lydia Samuel Bennett
Pocket watch likely carried by Matthew Henson in 1908-1909 Arctic expedition Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of WWI Officer Stetson Campaign Hat belonging to Peter L. Robinson, Sr. African American History and Culture Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Marie Robinson Johnson in memory of First Lieutenant Peter L. Robinson, Sr. 22 23 Each indexed document brings us closer to “ reclaiming our ancestral heritage and historical past.
“ HOLLIS GENTRY, GENEALOGY SPECIALIST
Exploring Museum volunteers joined with volunteers from FamilySearch International to index the names of 1.8 million emancipated men, women, and children found in the records of the Our History Freedmen’s Bureau.
These names were entered into a digital Reflections Booths in the History Galleries, database linked to digital scans of the orig- more than 39,000 visitors recorded inal documents created by the Freedmen’s short video statements describing Bureau between 1865 and 1872 and now their personal reflections on the preserved in the National Archives. Museum’s exhibitions. A visitor said, “After this experience… I want to stand up for The Museum is collaborating with the something... I see these people who fought Smithsonian’s Transcription Center to fully so hard to do something for me and my transcribe the Bureau’s nearly two million family and all who come after me… I am so documents—the largest crowdsourc- inspired to do better.” #VisitorVoices is ing project ever sponsored by the available through the Museum’s YouTube Smithsonian. The name index will be channel. combined with these transcribed documents to form a searchable database to help the For many years, the Museum and the public search their family histories and learn Association of African American Museums more about the Era of Reconstruction. A visitor digitizes a portait at a Community (AAAM) have collaborated on initiatives that Curation event. preserve and promote African American Visitors share their story in one of the The Museum’s Oral History initiative proved history and culture. In 2017, the Museum Museum’s Reflections Booths. popular during 2017. Making use of three hosted the AAAM annual conference. 24 25 It means a lot, and now that [the Museum “ is] finally complete, you can finally understand why it took so long. And just the effort, just theuniqueness that it has to “ me, it’s the best museum on the Mall. BRADLEY BEAL, WASHINGTON WIZARDS
Investing in the Since its founding in 2003 through December 2017, the Museum raised more Future than $405.8 million.
Nearly 500 people attended the conference, initiative, encourages people to digitally A visitor digitizes a high school diploma at a Contributions came from more than PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers) Charitable enrolled nearly 200,000 people, and has making it the largest convening of African document and share the history and Community Curation event. 14,000 donors—corporations, foundations, Foundation, Inc. funded the $3 million raised $37.5 million in unrestricted funds. American museum professionals in the culture of our African American organizations and individuals; 10 percent of Digital Education Initiative. Once launched, It has also cultivated a new generation of association’s history. communities to a cloud-based platform those gifts were $1 million and above. the initiative will share the Museum’s philanthropists. In 2017, the number of new accessible to the public. Partners include research-based curricula with educators members increased by 30 percent, and cash The Museum’s Robert Frederick Smith religious organizations, African American The gifts supplemented federal worldwide. revenue from appeals exceeded fiscal year Explore Your Family History Center museums, black Greek-letter organizations, funding for the costs of construc- 2016 by an impressive 42 percent. More provided digital resources supporting the civic organizations, individuals and families. tion, education, public programs, Many of the generous donors who support- than one-third of those who contributed to preservation, digitization, and sharing of The first program was held Nov. 3–12, 2017, in exhibitions, collections and other ed the capital campaign provided additional the Museum were first-time members and African American family history. More than Baltimore, Maryland. mission-critical initiatives. gifts to support the Museum’s future. In 2017, donors to the Smithsonian. 8,000 visitors received expert guidance on for example, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., genealogy, oral histories, and how to pre- Nearly 3,400 unique objects have been New friends who pledged their support matched its capital campaign gift to provide serve family films, videos, and photographs. digitized and more than 5,000 images for educational projects in 2017 included an additional $500,000 donation, resulting Visitors spanned all 50 states, the Caribbean, produced. The Baltimore program also former Sacramento mayor and former NBA in a total gift of $1 million to the Museum. Africa, South America, Europe and Asia. provided informational sessions, including player Kevin Johnson, whose $1 million The Museum’s membership program boasts Personal Digital Archiving and Preservation gift will support projects and programs the largest number of current membersof The Museum’s “Community Curation” of Sacred Things. that explore the intersection of sports and any Smithsonian museum. Since its inception program, a multi-city public outreach African American history. In addition, the in 2009, the membership program has
26 27 William and Tish Slattery & The Slattery Lloyd and Teri Trotter Wendell L. and Marie Collins Johns Recognizing our Donors Family Foundation Robin and Carl Washington and Family Thomas and Adelaide Jones Gerald and Anita Smith Family Theodore V. Wells, Jr. and Nina Mitchell Wells Gayle King The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture is grateful to Congress and the American people for their financial Southern Company Charitable Foundation, Cheryl, Eric, Caleb and Caitlin Whitaker Bernard, Shirley and Khalil Kinsey support. The Museum also acknowledges the generosity of our Founding Donors. Founding Donors are donors who made a commitment of $1 million or more to the National Museum of African American History and Culture prior to its opening in 2016. Inc. Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated Angela and Robert Kissane Stephen J. Stoute William K. and Alice S. Konze Joe and Clara Tsai Foundation $100,000 and Above Tonia Chenelle Lee $20 Million and Above Anthony and Beatrice Welters and the Cathy Hughes and Alfred C. Liggins III Reginald Van Lee Henry Hank Aaron and Billye Suber Aaron The LeeKong Family Lilly Endowment Inc. Vincent Wilkinson Foundation Hyundai Motor America Verizon Janice M. Adams Lasalle D. Leffall, Jr., M.D. and Ruth Leffall Robert Frederick Smith IBM Craig and Diane Welburn and Family The Batty and Batts Families Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation The Oprah Winfrey Charitable Foundation $1 Million and Above LaTanya, Zoe and Samuel L. Jackson Wells Fargo BB&T Byron and Sylvia Lewis AARP The LeBron James Family Foundation Robert L. Wright Anita Blanchard, M.D. and Martin Nesbitt The David Baker Lewis Family Charitable $10 Million and Above Rodney and Michelle Adkins Johnson Publishing Company Xerox Foundation Barbara Bluhm-Kaul Foundation Foundation American Express Aetna Foundation, Inc. Earvin and Cookie Johnson and Family Roger R. Blunt and Vivian Bowers Blunt Edward Lewis and Carolyn Lewis The Atlantic Philanthropies Aflac Kevin and Michelle Johnson & Georgia $500,000 and Above BNSF Railway Foundation Joe and Sharon Madison Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Alfred Street Baptist Church and Ronnie West 55th Presidential Inaugural Committee Fred and Eunice Bowman Mark, Helen, Garrett and Grant McIntosh The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated JPMorgan Chase & Co. The Allstate Foundation Charles M. Boyd and Family Eric and Cheryl McKissack The Rhimes Family Foundation Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated Robert and Arlene Kogod Bluhm Family Charitable Foundation Reginald J. Brown and Tiffeny Sanchez Mele and Michael E. Melton, Esq. David M. Rubenstein Altria Group Debra L. Lee, Quinn S. Coleman, Ava L. Deborah, Lindsey and Willard W. Brittain, Jr. Reginald and Aliya Browne Samuel, Bettye K. and Kim M. Metters Apple Coleman Ursula M. Burns and Lloyd F. Bean John, Rebecca, Jackie and Marcus Budd Peggy A. Montes and Family $5 Million and Above AT&T Inc. Dale L. LeFebvre Clemmie, Tari, Derek and James I. Cash, Jr., John N. Bulica Thomas A. and Joyce A. Moorehead 3M BET Networks/Viacom Loida Nicolas Lewis, Leslie Malaika Lewis and Ph.D. Valentino D. Carlotti Jim and Marlene Moss Bank of America Jeff & MacKenzie Bezos Christina Lewis Halpern Chubb Nelver and Olivette Carter Norfolk Southern Corporation The Boeing Company BlackRock The Reginald F. Lewis Foundation, Inc. Ann and Richard Fudge The Annie E. Casey Foundation Amos-Leo and Brenda Wills Otis CBS Corporation and Smithsonian Channel Bloomberg Philanthropies The Links Foundation, Incorporated William Randolph Hearst Foundation Merle Catherine Chambers and Lottie Samuel and Gaier Palmisano Ford Foundation Dr. and Mrs. T.B. Boyd III and Family/The Lowe’s Companies, Inc The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Montgomery Daniels Jonelle Procope and Frederick O. Terrell GE R. H. Boyd Company Victor and Thaderine MacFarlane and Family Houston Endowment Dave Chappelle Karen M. and Timothy D. Proctor Robert L. Johnson Brown Capital Management, LLC The J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott T.D. Jakes Ministries Alsie Cluff, Jr. and M. Annette Cluff, Ph.D. Public Welfare Foundation Michael Jordan and Family Kobe and Vanessa Bryant Family Foundation Foundation Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Incorporated William S. and Janet Langhart Cohen Robbie and D’Rita Robinson Kaiser Permanente The Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation McDonald’s Corporation Marriott International, Inc. Edith Cooper and Robert Taylor Desiree and Victoria Rogers The Rockefeller Foundation Maverick Carter Rose A. McElrath-Slade MasterCard Jill Cowan and Stephen Davis The Herman J. Russell Family Target Caterpillar Mattie McFadden-Lawson, Michael A. Lawson, MOËT Hennessy Douglas and Wendy Dayton Foundation Harvey Schwartz UnitedHealth Group Kenneth I., Kathryn C., Kenneth I. Jr., and Esq., and Family National Collegiate Athletic Association Deloitte Pam Scott and Tim Koogle Walmart Kevin A. Chenault James L. and Juliette McNeil Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Incorporated James Dicke Family Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Incorporated The Coca-Cola Foundation MetLife Foundation David Rockefeller Dennis O. Dixon Sarah Lou Simpson and Barbara Jean Mahone $2 Million and Above Dr. N. Anthony, Robyn, Andrew, Taylor and MGM Resorts International State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Albert E. Dotson, Jr. and Family Paula A. Sneed and Lawrence P. Bass 21st Century Fox and News Corp Evan Coles Microsoft Corporation Company Avis and Gregory Dyson Dmitri Stockton and Renée Allain-Stockton Carnival Corporation Michael and Susan Dell Michael and Lori Milken Visa Inc. Trevor and Melissa Fetter Mike Stoller and Corky Hale Stoller GlaxoSmithKline Dignity Health Mark & Brenda Moore and Family Clarence, DeLoise and Brenda Gaines Nathaniel K. and Mallory Sutton Johnson & Johnson The Dow Chemical Company Morgan Stanley $250,000 and Above GCM Grosvenor H. Patrick Swygert, Esq. and Leslie T. Fenwick, Kovler Foundation Andreas C. Dracopoulos National Basketball Association Kedrick and Lynette Adkins Philip L. Graham Fund Ph.D. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Sandra J. Evers-Manly National Basketball Players Association William R. Berkley and Marjorie J. Berkley Agnes Gund Larry and Brenda Thompson Foundation The Executive Leadership Council Foundation Clark Construction Group Shirley D. Harrison and Gar Parries Leslie Thomasina Thornton and Henry and Medtronic Foundation Exelon Foundation National Football League Dale Mason Cochran Hilton Ernestine Thornton The Moore Charitable Foundation/Louis FedEx Corporation Nationwide Foundation Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated Elizabeth Jackson Hodges and C. Howie The Tyson Family Moore Bacon Roger W. Ferguson, Jr. and Annette L. New York Life The Frances K. Dibner Fund Hodges II Christina, Cormisha Tamika, Cheryl and Jesse NIKE Foundation Nazareth Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Incorporated M. Hill and Cheryl W. Hammock Dane and Barbara Holmes Tyson Northrop Grumman Ford Motor Company Fund The David and Lucile Packard Foundation Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. and Ann Dibble Jordan Michele J. Hooper and Lemuel Seabrook III Union Pacific Railroad Prudential Andréa and Kenneth Frazier Richard D. and Laura A. Parsons Jonathan Logan Freeman A. Hrabowski III and Jacqueline C. Peggy Ann Wall PwC Charitable Foundation, Inc. Patricia and Phillip Frost The PepsiCo Foundation Deryl McKissack/McKissack & McKissack Hrabowski Tina A. Walls Earl W. and Amanda Stafford William J. and Brenda L. Galloway & Family Tyler Perry Margaret A. Pemberton Infinity Technology, LLC Janice Savin Williams and Christopher J. Stavros Niarchos Foundation David Geffen Foundation William F. Pickard Family Group Radio One, Inc. Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Incorporated Williams Patty Stonesifer and Michael Kinsley General Mills Foundation Colin and Alma Powell Ruth Jean Simmons, Ph.D. Jack and Jill of America, Inc. Ronald A. and Cynthia R. Williams Time Warner Foundation General Motors J.B. and M.K. Pritzker Family Foundation Janay Marriel Smith and Yvette Smiley-Smith Lawrence V. Jackson and Family Howard and Gail Campbell Woolley Toyota James T. George and Juliette J. George Franklin D. Raines and Denise Grant Marcus and Celena Smith Shirley Ann Jackson, Ph.D. and Morris Daniel and Saron Yohannes United Technologies Corporation Goldman Sachs Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Curtis H. Tearte and Jylla Moore Tearte, Ph.D. Washington, Ph.D. W.K. Kellogg Foundation Google.org Deborah Sara Santana Tenet Healthcare Corporation John E. and Barbara S. Jacob The Walt Disney Company The Hartford Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity/Boulé Foundation TIAA JMA Solutions, LLC Walton Family Foundation for James I. Cash, Jr. Mellody Hobson and George Lucas
28 29 NMAAHC Advisory Council The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture is grateful to the Advisory Council for their support on the planning and design of the museum; fundraising; the acquisition and display of objects; and the administration, operation and maintenance of the museum. The Council includes leaders from business, higher education and the arts as follows:
Willie Brown Rep. Doris Matsui Laura Bush Brian T. Moynihan James I. Cash Jr., Ph.D. Samuel I. Palmisano Kenneth I. Chenault Richard D. Parsons Tony Coles Colin L. Powell Brian Cornell Franklin D. Raines Ann M. Fudge Dr. Ruth Simmons Allan Golston David J. Skorton, MD LaTanya Jackson Earl W. Stafford James A. Johnson Patricia Q. Stonesifer Robert L. Johnson H. Patrick Swygert Linda Johnson Rice Anthony (Tony) Welters Quincy D. Jones Oprah Winfrey Michael L. Lomax Bob Wright
CREDITS
All images courtesy of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Front and back cover images by Alan Karchmer.
Left: The Ballou High School marching band of Washington, D.C., participates in the first anniversary celebration.
Below: Visitors are silhouetted against the Museum’s beautiful corona metalwork.
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