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<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Lonnie G. Bunch III</span></strong>, the first African American and first historian to serve as the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, as well as
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dr. Johnetta Betsch Cole</span></strong>, anthropologist, educator, museum director and the first female African-American president of Spelman College, and the
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Honorable Carla Hayden</span></strong>, Librarian of Congress, the first woman and the first African American to lead the national library.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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