Follow us on

Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012 | 5:02 p.m.

KIRO-TV Travel

Travel News, Guides and Tips from KIRO-TV.

Obama helps break ground on black history museum image

Associated Press

New black history museum rising on National Mall

Frederick Douglass was black and that was enough for the Smithsonian Institution to bar the famed abolitionist from speaking at a lecture series intended to convince President Abraham Lincoln that he should end slavery as war divided the nation in February 1862.

Travel Videos

 

Advertisement

Ads By Google

Advertisement

Links We Like
 
 

View mobile site