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Article: NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE LOOKS BACK AT BLACK POWER MOVEMENT IN SYMPOSIUM MARCH 30, 31
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
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- February 25, 2009
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 -- The Smithsonian Institution issued the following press release:
A two-day symposium on the history and impact of the black power movement of the 1960s and 1970s will take place Monday, March 30, and Tuesday, March 31, at the Nan Tucker McEvoy Auditorium of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery, located at Eighth and F streets N.W. in Washington, D.C.
Sponsored by the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, "1968 and Beyond: A Symposium on the Impact of the Black Power Movement in America" will examine what African American history scholar Peniel Joseph calls the "classical period" of the civil rights movement ...