The push to create a black museum on the Mall dates to 1915, when a group of black veterans proposed that a memorial to African-Americans be constructed there. Congress actually approved the creation of a black museum in 1929 but refused to provide financing. In the late 1960s, prominent blacks like James Baldwin and Jackie Robinson lobbied Congress to create a national museum of African-American history, but the effort went nowhere.
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