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CreditsImage Credit: Kadir Nelson, Henrietta Lacks (HeLa): The Mother of Modern Medicine, 2017. Collection of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery and National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift from Kadir Nelson and the JKBN Group LLC.
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CreditsMeredith Holmgren holds a Peggy Seeger record in the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives. Photo courtesy of Meredith Holmgren.
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CreditsPreview art for Girlhood (It's Complicated), an upcoming exhibition at the National Museum of American History.
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CreditsOris Sanjur, current acting director of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, speaking at the "Working Women: The Smithsonian Institution as a Case Study" symposium on December 18, 2019. Photograph by Michael Barnes.
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CreditsPoster advocating for Angela Davis. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
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CreditsEthel Waters stamp. National Postal Museum. © United States Postal Service. All rights reserved.
