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taking your calls, tweets, facebook posts for curators. we re joined inside with robert wilkins to talk about how this museum came about. he is the author of the book long road to hard truth . thanks very much for being with us. thank you. it s a pleasure to be here. so talk of this museum began back in 1916. it took a century to be built. walk us through the process. back in early 1916, in march or so, gentleman named ferdinand de soto lee, created a nonprofit called the national memorial association, and its goal was to construct a physical memorial here in the nation s capital to honor the contributions of negro soldiers and sailors who had fought in every war from the revolutionary war on up until that time. within a couple years the organization broadened its mission to want to construct what they called a national memorial building to negro achievement and contributions to america in all fields of endeavor from business to education to the arts, et cetera. ....
culture. we ll show you exhibit galleries and artifacts and conversations with staff curators and the author of a book about the krooe creation of the museum. you are looking at the national museum of african-american history and culture on the mall in washington, d.c. it is the newest smithsonian museum opening back in september. and this week it welcomed its 1 millionth visitor through these doors. tonight we will take you through the doors of this museum that chronic will the american experience and also telling a shared american story. we ll be live for the next 2.5 hours. in 40 minutes we ll be tabbing your calls, tweets, facebook posts for curators. we re joined inside with robert wilkins to talk about how this me psi seeium came about. he is the author of the book long road to hard truth . thanks very much for being with us. thank you. it s a pleasure to be here. so talk of this museum began back in 1960 teen. it took a century to be built. walk us through ....
millionth visitor through these doors. tonight we will take you through the doors of this museum that chronic will the american experience and also telling a shared american story. we ll be live for the next 2.5 hours. in 40 minutes we ll be tabbing your calls, tweets, facebook posts for curators. we re joined inside with robert wilkins to talk about how this me psi seeium came about. he is the author of the book long road to hard truth . thanks very much for being with us. thank you. it s a pleasure to be here. so talk of this museum began back in 1960 teen. it took a century to be built. walk us through the process. back in early 1916, in march or so, gentleman named ferdinand de soto lee, created a nonprofit called the national memorial association, and its goal was to construct a physical memorial here in the nation s capital to hont contributions of negro soldiers and sailors who had fought never war from the ref liegs nary war up until that time. within a c ....
you are looking at the national museum of african american history and culture on the mall in washington dc. it is the newest smithsonian museum. it welcomed its one millionth visitor this week. we will take you inside the museum gallery for a look at the stories at artifacts that chronicle the african-american experience and tell a shared american story. we will be live for the next 2.5 hours. we will be taking your calls, tweets, facebook posts. we are joined with judge robert wilkins to talk about how this museum came about. he is the author of the book long road to hard truth, the 100 year mission to create the national museum of african american history and culture. talk of this museum began back in 1916. it took a century to be built. walk us through the process. judge wilkins: in early 1916, a gentleman named ferdinand de soto lee created a nonprofit called the national memorial association. its goal was to construct a physical memorial here in the nation s c ....
of that congregation. they bought the land in 1870, two parcels of land, for the express purpose of building a house of worship. in the sale document we have from the courthouse, they named anti-yokeregation the congregation. that message of being against slavery is something important to our story here. this is a significant church for newly freed slaves on the east bank of the river. we are talking about the lives of people who saw freedom after the end of the civil war. we like to start our to her here in this building so we can see what happens to people our tour here in this building so we can see what happened to people after freedom came. the whitney plantation is the only plantation in louisiana exclusively dedicated to telling the story of an slaved people. this land we are on now was historically known as habitation hideout, and our owner, john cummings, purchased the property 15 years ago and has been and theg the structure church. we had to build some thin ....