Highlights from the collection of the National Museum of African American History and Culture include Muhammad Ali’s robe, Emmett Till’s coffin, a shawl given to Harriet Tubman by Queen Victoria, and a Tuskegee Airmen training plane. The museum’s founding director Lonnie Bunch, who was responsible for obtaining artifacts for the museum, told Encyclopaedia Britannica during a 2022 interview what Till’s mother told him when she agreed to give the museum his casket: “I kept hearing Mamie Till-Mobley saying it was my turn to make sure Emmett was never forgotten.”
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