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The effort to put a black museum on the mall hung up on a single

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question: Who has the right to tell the African-American story?

It's Friday afternoon, and the Mall is simmering with camera-toting tourists, lunch-breaking employees, and emaciated joggers. A group of women plants itself on a bench and sparks some cancer sticks, while a weary father grips his nagging son's arm and gives him an earful: "Dammit, Bobby, I said no!" A few yards away, yellow buses disgorge droves of screeching schoolkids, who are about to tour one of the largest complexes of museums ever assembled. Bright-eyed and laughing, they scan the Mall, trying to decide which museum will be their first victim. They know that from the history of aviation to an impressive collection of cockroaches, the Mall has it all. And it's expanding. In 1993, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum was added nearby, and in the next 10 years a museum dedicated to Native Americans is slated to join the Smithsonian carnival of history and culture.... Continued

Issue of Feb. 6 - 12, 1998

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