Each week American History tv visits museums and historic places. Next, we visit the World War Ii Museum in new orleans to learn about the exhibit, fighting for the right to fight, africanamerican expenses in world war ii. Kim im kim guise. We have a special exhibit at the museum that opened in july of 2015. And runs through may. At which point we launch a national show. We are particularly proud of this exhibit, and artifacts therein. There are some fantastic stories which i will tell you about shortly. We crafted this special exhibit with the help of the National Advisory board. So africanamerican scholars from around the country, including the smithsonian institution, who helped guide and steer the conversation, in regards to the exhibit and the africanAmerican Experience in world war ii. When thinking about the importance of this story, and the importance of africanamerican stories during world war ii, the founder of the national World War Ii Museum, Stephen Ambrose wrote in citize
Museum. The world warr at ii museum. We have a special exhibit at the museum. It opened in july, 2015, and will run through may. We are particularly proud of this exhibit and the artifacts therein. There are some fantastic stories that i will tell you about shortly. We crafted a special exhibit with the help of a National Advisory board. Africanamerican scholars from around the country, including the smithsonian institution, helped guide the conversation in regards to the exhibit and the africanAmerican Experience in world war ii. In thinking about the importance of the story, and the importance of africanamerican stories during world war ii, the founder of the National World war ii in citizen biggest, the worlds democracy fought the worlds biggest races with a segregated army. That is really the great irony of world war ii, or one of them, at least. Those are some of the stories we are trying to tell in this exhibit. The mission of the world war ii National World war ii museum, is to