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Particularly now that so many of our fellow citizens have been reminded in a very moving way of the heritage of Black Americans, the Museum will be filling a large need for well researched and mounted exhibitions, for publications and for educational outreach programs in African art.  In short, we find the Museum of African Art to be exactly the kind of new enterprise to which the Smithsonian Institution should commit itself.

Respectfully submitted,

Congresswoman Boggs
Senator Goldwater
Mr. Haskins (Chairman)
Mr. Higginbotham