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This #BlackHistoryMonth, I invited you to join me at your computer screens to do something that sounds simple and maybe a bit dull if you aren't a 19th century historian like myself—to look at old documents and type the words you see. I'm thrilled that so many of you joined me. Lonnie G. Bunch III is at his desk looking at a historic document on his computer screen. His hands are on keyboard. He wears his glasses. He is typing.
@TranscribeSI Maybe you captured a few words from an 1869 letter about a "Colored Orphans' Home" in the South. Or you typed an article from 1934 criticizing a D.C. ice cream parlor refusing to employ African American workers in an African American neighborhood. Your efforts make a difference. Historic document written in cursive. “Washington D.C. 1869” is readable. It is a letter, very short. It references supplying coal to the Front page of newspaper “New Negro Opinion.” Slightly yellowed. Large headlines include “N.N.A. Case Reaches Court.” “Fight Starts Riot.” “Boy, 6, is Killed by Auto; Man Exonerated.” “Princess Anne is Scene of Race Disturbance.”
@TranscribeSI @NMAAHC @USNatArchives @SmithsonianACM Transcribing brings the lives and stories within these brittle documents to light. Those of us doing the typing gain an appreciation for history while making documents more available to our researchers and anyone curious enough to do a Google search or browse our @TranscribeSI.
@TranscribeSI @NMAAHC @USNatArchives @SmithsonianACM This month, 385 new volunteers transcribed 2,636 pages of African American history.

Together we completed 78 entire projects launched on @TranscribeSI for #BlackHistoryMonth, double the number completed in past years. Lonnie G. Bunch III is seated at his desk. His hands are raised in a “we did it, voila” gesture and he smiles. Behind him, his satchel is placed on his windowsill. Outside the window, a view of the Smithsonian Castle Garden, Castle, and Arts and Industries Building.
@TranscribeSI @NMAAHC @USNatArchives @SmithsonianACM As #BlackHistoryMonth comes to a close, don't stop transcribing. Our Smithsonian Transcription Center regularly launches new projects with fascinating stories to unlock. Give @TranscribeSI a follow and click "sign up" on the website.
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Lonnie G. Bunch III
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In 2006, I got great news. I'd be able to keep my job. I'd only been director of @NMAAHC for seven months but I was prepared to walk away if the Smithsonian selected an off-the-National-Mall site for the museum. With our spot on the Mall secured, I couldn't stop smiling. View from a high vantage point of part of the National Mall. On left, Washington Monument. A few trees.
Soon after the announcement of our location, people began to flood me with their opinions on what the museum should be. I heard from scholars, neighbors, politicians, educators, and more.

But it was someone I met in the Dallas airport whose thoughts stuck with me.
As a superstitious flyer, I like to get my shoes shined at the airport. After a long fundraising visit in Texas, I was delayed by storms and went in search of a shoeshine. An elderly African American man began to work on my shoes.
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Lonnie G. Bunch III
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Today's #1619Project collaboration between @Smithsonian and @NYTMag allows Americans to do something important—to illuminate the darkest corners of our history, one of which is the story of slavery. Graphic with yellow text on black background. Text is a quote from Lonnie G. Bunch II, 14th Secretary of the Smithsonian: “Let us use history to inspire us to push a country forward, to help us believe that all things are possible and to demand a country lives up to its stated ideas.”
The #1619Project allows us to understand how central slavery was to our creation and to who we are to this day. It reminds us that America has always been shaped by diverse people and has always been touched and informed by the African American experience.
We continue to be shaped by slavery and to grapple with its legacy. I hope you'll join us now to view the #1619Project webcast presented at @NMAAHC in collaboration between @Smithsonian and @NYTMag: twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
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Lonnie G. Bunch III
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When Dr. Charles Blockson invited me to Philadelphia to see artifacts related to Harriet Tubman, I was doubtful that much material from her life had survived. But at least I'd get a Philly cheesesteak and have the opportunity to see Blockson, who I admire. #CreatingNMAAHC Black and white portrait of a woman standing for her portrait in a studio, her hands crossed over each other. She wears a long-sleeve, long black dress with lace at collar.
@NMAAHC When we met at Temple University, Dr. Blockson brought out a tiny box. It seemed too small to hold a legacy as important as Harriet Tubman's and I thought I'd wasted a trip. But then Blockson opened the box.
@NMAAHC That day in Philadelphia, Dr. Blockson showed us 25 artifacts. A homemade knife and fork that Tubman carried on forays into the south to rescue enslaved people, photos of Tubman's 1913 funeral that few had ever seen. As each item emerged, our group grew more and more emotional. Fork on white backgroundKnife on white background
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Do you think we earn this: 21st Century skills intervention & Technical/Vocational Education Intervention as #NGO in schools?
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A look at the 1949 Jackie Robinson Comic Books, by Fawcett Publications,

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#comicbook history

Fawcett is best known today for creating the character of the original Captain Marvel in Whiz Comics (Named for Captain Billy's Whiz Bang)

This is a storied character, later incorporated into DC comics. He's got a movie coming out this Spring
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