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line-height: 19px; margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(38, 40, 42);">Meet Juan García Salazar, the Man Who Championed Black Identity in Ecuador</h2><p class="ydpa8e7dabdcard-description" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(151, 155, 167);">Behind the very first artifact to enter the African American History Museum's collections resides a story about ...</p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></a></div><div><br></div><div><span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 33); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The article focuses on Juan Garcia and his donation of his grandmother’s iconic boat seat to
the National Museum of African American History and Culture. This was their
first acquisition ever, and they now have close to
40,000 artifacts in their collection.</span></div><p></p><p class="ydp57e07bdbMsoNormal">
<span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><font color="#1c1e21" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Museum is doing a major tribute for Juan on
June 30th in the Oprah Winfrey Theater, and I am involved because he and I
worked together for 37 years on a variety of projects and
activities. (After checking out the article, click on the video </span>embedded<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> in it, of simultaneous, bilingual stories from Ecuador.)</span></font></span><span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 33); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp57e07bdbMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(28, 30, 33); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">As part of the preparations for the tribute, I
traveled to Ecuador recently, with two curators from the Museum. We visited Afro Descendant areas of the country and met with more than 50 people who had worked with Garcia. He was a
humble and dedicated man who has been called “the Father of Black Ecuadorian
Identity.”</span><span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 33); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp57e07bdbMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(28, 30, 33); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Saludos,</span></p>
<div><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(28, 30, 33); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Chuck Kleymeyer</span></div></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(28, 30, 33); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(28, 30, 33); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">(If you want tickets to the June 30th event, contact me ASAP. It sold out in two days, but there are still some VIP spaces left.)</span></div><br><br></div></body></html>