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The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture is going to consider whether to permanently keep two prized artifacts belonging to civil rights icon Amos Brown — which the ...

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The institution denied reports that objects related to the Civil Rights Movement will be removed from two museums amid ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Right now, a report is out claiming that a portion of the historic F.W. Woolworth lunch counter from the ...