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We tell the story of America by portraying the people who shape the nation's history, development, and culture. | Legal:

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Vrijeme pridruživanja: veljača 2009.

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  2. TODAY at 6:30 PM: Dana Tai Soon Burgess Dance Company presents a tribute to Marian Anderson in the McEvoy Auditorium. Join us for this moving performance! 💃 Registration encouraged:

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  3. Today's performance is sold out! But don't worry, you'll get another chance to see this tribute to Marian Anderson tomorrow night: ✨

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  4. TODAY at 6:30 PM: Dana Tai Soon Burgess Dance Company presents a tribute to Marian Anderson in the McEvoy Auditorium. Join us for this moving performance! 💃 Registration encouraged:

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  5. We hear there's a big football game happening today. 🏈 What are you looking forward to this Sunday night?

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    10 year old MLK Jr. saw singer Marian Anderson perform at the where he would give his “I have a dream” speech 24 years later. See the exhibition exploring her life and civil rights activism near the MLK Library.

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    One quirky delight of the National Portrait Gallery is the spot in the 3rd floor hallway where you can see Michelle Obama looking at you from one room, and Kurt Cobain staring from the opposite room. Imagine, the eyes of those two looking at each other all day long.

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    Today in 1919: Fred T. Korematsu is born. He challenged Japanese American incarceration in the Supreme Court. [📷: Courtesy of @NPG]

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    Korematsu v. United States document.
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    a new show gets at the visual heart of competitive camaraderie roiling within artist colonies.

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  10. to trailblazer, Oprah Winfrey! 🎁 Called the “most powerful” woman in the world, Oprah was born to an impoverished single mother and started her reporting career on the radio. 📷:

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    Lorraine Hansberry channeled her family's personal experience of housing discrimination into "A Raisin in the Sun," but the play spoke to an experience many African Americans faced. This portrait of her by David Attie is in the collection of .

    Black and white photographic portrait of woman leaning against a desk, gesturing with one hand as though in conversation. Behind her, a large portrait of her face.
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    Madam C.J. Walker was the first self-made female millionaire. Get the facts about her life—and her successful business—on My Million Dollar Invention.

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    Hazel Dickens was a bluegrass performer at a time when the genre was dominated by men, and an advocate for women + workers. Along with Alice Gerrard, she empowered countless woman musicians to succeed without sacrificing integrity.

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    The Congressional Gold Medal recognized the WASP as a "catalyst for revolutionary reform in the integration of women pilots into the Armed Services." Explore more examples of women who broke boundaries in the workforce:

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    Smithsonian botanist and suffragist Mary Agnes Chase (1869-1963) specialized in the study of grasses and conducted extensive field work in S. America. Denied access to funded expeditions because she was a woman, she self-financed many of her own research trips.

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    In “Strange Fruit,” Billie Holiday calls attention to lynching. Originally published as a poem by Abel Meeropol in 1937, Holiday first recorded the song in 1939 Time named it the best song of the century More stories of women's activism:

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    In the 1890s, Kittie Knox, an African-American bicyclist from Boston, broke racial barriers to enter (and win) cycling races & contests.

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    Edith Halpert was one of New York's first female art dealers & a pioneer in the field. Her mission was to bring art within reach of average Americans. She regularly presented work by women, immigrants, Jewish & African American artists at her Downtown Gallery.

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    Learn more about the woman who founded the Girl Scouts. This portrait of her is part of 's collection.

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  20. There are so many more stories of remarkable women in our collection and across the Smithsonian. To see and learn more, visit:

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  21. Dolores del Rio established herself as a major box-office draw in the 1920s. Although Hollywood counted her among its first “Latin” stars, del Rio resisted their efforts to typecast her during her silent film career.

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