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American history for similar institutions around the nation.  The Museum will continue its concentration on Black American studies to foster public understanding of and appreciation for Black involvement in the history of this country, from Jamestown to the space shuttle, through exhibitions, research, publications, and educational programs.  In addition to exhibitions which it produces and displays in its own building, the Museum also develops and circulates traveling exhibits to a local and national audience.  Over the next five years, the Museum will continue to plan and develop research projects that support its in-house and traveling exhibitions; and related catalogues and brochures for general museum audiences; and locate and interpret historical documents, artifacts and memorabilia that are germane to Afro-American studies and ethnohistory for use in museum exhibitions.

The Museum will continue to expand its involvement with other Smithsonian organizations, with non-Smithsonian museums, the academic community, archival and other institutions toward greater fulfillment of the Museums's mission to increase nontraditional museum audience in all phases of the Smithsonian experience.

During FY 1982, the Anacostia Museum developed and installed the Franklin Delano Roosevelt commemorative exhibition, "Mary McLeod Bethune and Roosevelt's Black Cabinet", which was well-received by the public and was described by [[underlined]] The New York Times [[/underlined]] as "...one of the more interesting" of the FDR Centennial shows.  The Anna J. Cooper exhibition catalogue was published in FY 1982 and has been reprinted due to public acclaim, and the [[underlined]]John Robinson/Larry Lebby [[/underlined]] art show was researched, designed and produced with a projected opening of November 1982.  Audio tapes for the visually impaired visitor were produced, as were alternate labels for the deaf.

Continuing throughout FY 1982 were research and preliminary design for the Museum's upcoming exhibition, "The Renaissance, When the Negro Was in Vogue".  Planning and development of this project, the most ambitious in the Museum's history, will continue throughout FY 1983 with a projected FY 1984 opening.  Also, writing, design, fabrication and installation of an exhibition of the work of nationally known sculptor Ed Dwight continues towards a formal opening in FY 1983; and the exhibition "Black Women: Achievements Against the Odds", by far the most popular Museum exhibition, is being updated for a planned reopening in FY 1984.

In collaboration with the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, research staff began the investigation of the social history surrounding an early 19th century slave cabin known as the Mitchell/Bailey House.  It is believed to have been the home of Peter Mitchell, Sr. and his wife, Eliza Bailey Mitchell, the sister of the former Talbot County slave and famed abolitionist, Frederick Douglass.  The structure is in the inventory of the