Smithsonian Magazine - 11.2019

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Founding Director Bunch shares the triumphs and challenges
of building the National Museum of African American History
and Culture, and taps into broader questions of the role of
race in America—past, present, and future.


A Fool’s Errand: Creating the National Museum of African American
History and Culture in the Age of Bush, Obama, and Trump
By Lonnie G. Bunch III
HC | $29.95 | ISBN 9781588346681


“Like the Smithsonian National Museum of
African American History itself, its inaugural
director’s memoir tells a challenging
and ultimately inspiring story of struggle,
perseverance, and uplift.” --Booklist

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the story of the building ,


the building of the story

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