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Wise (Stephen S.) Papers.
Stephen S. Wise fought for housing projects, the abolition of child labor, the
improvement of working conditions, securing rights for female workers, and equal
rights for African Americans.
Call Number: Special Collections K0002
GUIDEBOOKS AND EXHIBIT CATALOGS
The African American Heritage and Multicultural Guide. Washington, D.C.: Washington, D.C.
Convention and Visitors Association. 1999.
This tourist guide celebrates the value of African Americans to the tourism industry
by providing a list of African American museums and attractions and an African
American Heritage Tour.
Call Number: Special Collections E 185.93.D6 A37 2000
Anacostia Neighborhood Museum. The Frederick Douglass Years: A Cultural History
Exhibition. Washington, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1970.
The Anacostia Museum created an exhibit relating the slave trade, African American
contributions to America’s history and culture, and the African American’s rise from
slavery to post-Reconstruction in order to place the African American in the proper
perspective as part of today’s American society.
Call Number: Special Collections E 185.53.W3 A54
The Making of a Museum. Washington, D.C.: The Museum, 1967.
This information manual uses the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum as a case study
for “taking museums to the people” by renting buildings in low-income
neighborhoods and installing hands-on exhibitions for fuller learning.
Call Number: Special Collections F 191.5.A52 1967
Barnett-Aden Gallery. The Barnett-Aden Collection. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian
Institution Press, 1974.
The Barnett-Aden Gallery created this catalog to showcase the artwork in its
collections and provide a brief history of African American art and brief biographies
of the artists shown at the gallery.
Call Number: Special Collections N 6538.N5 B37
Battle, Thomas C. Catalog of the Inaugural Exhibition of the Howard University Museum.
Washington: Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University, 1979.
Howard University collects Africana materials, a selection of which is shown in this
catalog.