Ancestral Missions: Preserving Our Foremothers' Legacies
name: label: Collection Collector
content: Maltsby, Portia
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content: Smithsonian Institution. Program in African American Culture
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content: Program in African American Culture Collection
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content: Program in African American Culture Collection / Series 1: Program Files
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content: 1991 February 23
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content: Box 20, Folder 10-11
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content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Archival materials
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content: The Program in African American Culture presented a public program related to the exhibition "From Parlor to Politics: Women and Reform in America, 1890-1925" in the Hall of Musical Instruments, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, on Saturday, February 23, 1991. The program included an overview, "The Ideology of Organizing: African American Women's Culture" by Jacqueline A. Rouse; a lecture, "Modjeska M. Simkins: Embodiment of Race and Gender Politics" by Barbara A. Woods; an oral history testimony from Mrs. Modjeska M. Simkins; a dramatization of speeches from African American women trailblazers and torchbearers; and a tour of the exhibition. Program number AC408.70.