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Chair of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Howard Dodson, speaking at ceremony, at the Ted Weiss Federal Office Building in New York City, New York, marking announcement of the designation of the African Burial Ground in lower Manhattan as a National Monument

Chair of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Howard Dodson, speaking at ceremony, at the Ted Weiss Federal Office Building in New York City, New York, marking announcement of the designation of the African Burial Ground in lower Manhattan as a National Monument

Chair of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Howard Dodson, speaking at ceremony, at the Ted Weiss Federal Office Building in New York City, New York, marking announcement of the designation of the African Burial Ground in lower Manhattan as a National Monument

Chair of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Howard Dodson, speaking at ceremony, at the Ted Weiss Federal Office Building in New York City, New York, marking announcement of the designation of the African Burial Ground in lower Manhattan as a National Monument

Chair of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Howard Dodson, speaking at ceremony, at the Ted Weiss Federal Office Building in New York City, New York, marking announcement of the designation of the African Burial Ground in lower Manhattan as a National Monument

Chair of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Howard Dodson, speaking at ceremony, at the Ted Weiss Federal Office Building in New York City, New York, marking announcement of the designation of the African Burial Ground in lower Manhattan as a National Monument

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Chair Howard Dodson, former New York City Mayor David Dinkins, National Park Service Deputy Director Don Murphy, left to right, at ceremony marking announcement of National Monument status for the African Burial Ground, New York City, New York

Ceremony at the Ted Weiss Federal Office Building in New York City, New York, marking the announcement of the designation of the African Burial Ground in lower Manhattan, considered the largest Colonial-era cemetery for enslaved and free Africans in America, as a National Monument

Former New York City Mayor David Dinkins speaking at ceremony, at the Ted Weiss Federal Office Building in New York City, New York, marking the announcement of the designation of the 17th-18th Century African Burial Ground in lower Manhattan as a National Monument

Chair of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Howard Dodson, speaking at ceremony, at the Ted Weiss Federal Office Building in New York City, New York, marking announcement of the designation of the African Burial Ground in lower Manhattan as a National Monument

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label_outline Explore Black Culture, Schomburg Center, Weiss Federal Office

[Assignment: 59-CF-DS-19466-05] African American History Celebration, in Dean Acheson Auditorium, [featuring performance by Morgan State University Choir, and remarks by guest speakers including: Secretary Condoleezza Rice; Bernard LaFayette, Jr., 1960's civil rights leader, Director of the Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies at the University of Rhode Island; Dorothy Height, long-time civil rights and women's rights activist, President Emeritus of the National Council of Negro Women; and Romeo Crennel, head coach of the National Football League's Cleveland Browns... [Photographer: Ann Thomas--State] [59-CF-DS-19466-05_DSC_1809.JPG]

[Assignment: 48-DPA-10-05-07_SOI_K_ABG_DOI] Secretary Dirk Kempthorne and aides in New York City, New York [for touring, participation in] dedication of new memorial at the African Burial Ground National Monument [48-DPA-10-05-07_SOI_K_ABG_DOI_IOD_4511.JPG]

Events marking the designation of Graceland Mansion, home of Elvis Presley, Memphis, Tennessee, as a National Historic Landmark, with appearance by actress Priscilla Presley

[Assignment: 48-DPA-10-05-07_SOI_K_ABG_Event] Dedication of new memorial at the African Burial Ground National Monument in New York City, New York, with keynote address by Secretary Dirk Kempthorne [and presentations by dignitaries including New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, New York Senator Charles Schumer, General Services Administrator Lurita Doan, National Park Service Deputy Director for Operations Dan Wenk, African Burial Ground Superintendent Tara Morrison, New York Public Library Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Director Howard Dodson, poet and novelist Maya Angelou, and actors Sidney Poitier and Avery Brooks.] [48-DPA-10-05-07_SOI_K_ABG_Event_DOI_3032.JPG]

[Assignment: 48-DPA-11-02-07_SOI_K__Mrs_Bush_MS] Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne to Ocean Springs, Mississippi, where he joined First Lady Laura Bush, [White House Council on Environmental Quality Chairman James Connaughton, and Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour for tours of the J.L. Scott Marine Education Center-Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, and a ceremony formally designating the center as the 21st Coastal Ecosystem Learning Center in the nation. Secretary Kempthorne and First Lady Bush also used the designation ceremony to announce new Bush Administration actions on marine debris.] [48-DPA-11-02-07_SOI_K_Mrs_Bush_MS_IOD_6697.JPG]

Assistant Secretary for Policy, Management, and Budget, P. Lynn Scarlett, and the Chairman of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, John Nau III, right, at announcement in Washington, D.C. of the designation of 24 localities as Preserve America communities

[Assignment: 48-DPA-10-05-07_SOI_K_ABG_Event] Dedication of new memorial at the African Burial Ground National Monument in New York City, New York, with keynote address by Secretary Dirk Kempthorne [and presentations by dignitaries including New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, New York Senator Charles Schumer, General Services Administrator Lurita Doan, National Park Service Deputy Director for Operations Dan Wenk, African Burial Ground Superintendent Tara Morrison, New York Public Library Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Director Howard Dodson, poet and novelist Maya Angelou, and actors Sidney Poitier and Avery Brooks.] [48-DPA-10-05-07_SOI_K_ABG_Event_DOI_3069.JPG]

[Assignment: OS_2005_1201_88] Office of the Secretary - African American Event with Secretary Carlos Gutierrez and Stedman Graham [40_CFD_OS_2005_1201_88_568.JPG]

Wyoming Governor Dave Freudenthal speaking at Cheyenne, Wyoming ceremony marking the designation of the Union Pacific Railroad Depot as a National Historic Landmark

[Assignment: 48-DPA-11-02-07_SOI_K__Mrs_Bush_MS] Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne to Ocean Springs, Mississippi, where he joined First Lady Laura Bush, [White House Council on Environmental Quality Chairman James Connaughton, and Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour for tours of the J.L. Scott Marine Education Center-Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, and a ceremony formally designating the center as the 21st Coastal Ecosystem Learning Center in the nation. Secretary Kempthorne and First Lady Bush also used the designation ceremony to announce new Bush Administration actions on marine debris.] [48-DPA-11-02-07_SOI_K_Mrs_Bush_MS_DOI_6493.JPG]

[Assignment: 48-DPA-04-11-08_SOI_K_Af-Am_Exp] Fundraising gala for the National Park Foundation's African American Experience Fund (AAEF) at the Rainbow Room in Rockefeller Center, New York City, New York, where Secretary Dirk Kempthorne [joined former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and civil rights leader Andrew Young, former Assistant Secretary of Labor and Little Rock school integration pioneer Ernest Green, Coca-Cola Company Vice President Ingrid Saunders Jones, public television news correspondent and moderator Gwen Ifill, and AAEF Board of Trustees Chairman Robert Harris among the dignitaries on hand] [48-DPA-04-11-08_SOI_K_Af-Am_Exp_IOD_3363.JPG]

[African American woman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left]

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