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Who was the founding director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture?

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Lonnie Bunch III was the founding director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, hired in 2005. Bunch was named to director of the Smithsonian Institution in 2019. Of the NMAAHC Bunch has said: “I wanted to build a museum where you’d cry as you pondered the pain of slavery or segregation – but I also wanted you to find joy; I wanted you to tap your toes to Duke Ellington or Louis Armstrong.”