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Save Our African American Treasures: A National Collections Initiative

The Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture presents Save Our African American Treasures: A National Collections Initiative of Discovery and Preservation.

This program allows participants to identify and preserve items of historical and cultural significance tucked away in the attics, closets and basements of their homes. The Treasures program features presentations, hands-on activities and preservation tips.

Check back regularly to see if Treasures will be coming to your community.

Discovering, Preserving, and Celebrating the Culture

The aim of this program is to assist in the identification and preservation of material culture important to moments in American history.

Saving African American Sacred Spaces

Prompted by the destruction by fire of Chicago's Pilgrim Baptist Church in January 2006, the museum has sought ways to alert the local community to the conservation issues endangering their heritage.

StoryCorps Griot

This year-long initiative will strive to gather and preserve the life stories of African American families by recording their oral histories.

Collaboration

Save Our African American Treasures requires a joint effort of collaboration and provides opportunities for all partners and audience members to benefit.

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tradition, family, oral history, preservation, collecting, conserving, sacred, community

Memory Book

Thelma Patten Law, M.D.
Contributed on September 30, 2008
By: paula.lauren.gibson@gmail.com
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Support for the Save Our African American
Treasures program has been provided
by a generous grant from
Bank of America Charitable Foundation.