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# National Museum of African American History and Culture: Installed Collection Items

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**Slave Cabin**, c. early 1800s

A weatherboard-clad cabin used during slavery at Point of Pines Plantation on Edisto Island, S.C.Gift of the Edisto Island Historic Preservation Society

**Segregation-era Southern Railway car, No. 1200**, c. 1920

A 44-seat segregated passenger car that serviced routes in Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia and Florida.Gift of Pete Claussen and Gulf and Ohio Railways

**Tuskegee Airplane**, **Boeing-Stearman PT-13D Kaydet**, c. 1944

A vintage, open-cockpit biplane that was used at Alabama’s renowned Tuskegee Institute to train African American pilots for Army Air Corps service during World War II.

**Angola Prison Guard Tower**, c. 1930–1940s

A 20-foot-tall tower used by prison guards to watch prisoners at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, one of the largest maximum-security prisons in the nation.Gift of Louisiana State Penitentiary

**Jones-Hall-Sims House**, c. 1874

Log house from Poolesville, Md., that was built and inhabited by free slaves after the Civil War.Gift of Bradley and Shannon Rhoderick

**Chuck Berry’s Cadillac**, c. 1973

The car is part of Berry’s personal fleet of Cadillacs and was driven during the filming of *Hail! Hail! Rock ’n’ Roll*, a 1987 documentary that chronicles two 1986 concerts.Gift of Chuck Berry

**The Parliament-Funkadelic Mothership**, c. 1990

The 1,200-pound aluminum stage prop used at funk-musician George Clinton’s concerts.Gift of Love to the planet

***Soul Train*****Neon Sign**, c. 1993

Neon sign used on the *Soul Train* TV show, 1993–2006.Gift of Soul Train Holdings LLC

**Sam Cooke Banner**, c. 1964

Large banner advertising Sam Cooke used in Atlantic City, N.J.Gift of Vicki Gold Levi

**Minton’s Playhouse Sign**, c. 1984

Historic neon sign from Minton’s Playhouse, a jazz club located in Harlem, N.Y.Gift of Harlem Community Development Corp.

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