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National Museum of African American History: Donors Evening

Posted on by Ric Murphy
September 17, 2016, Washington, DC. I had the awesome honor in attending the Donors Evening at a pre-opening event at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, and it was absolutely and AWESOME star-studded event. No long lines to get into the building, they handled issues of crowd control with absolute precision, including checking bags, IDs and onsite registration. The first thing a visitor will notice is the beauty and grandeur of the lobby, which was warm and inviting. ...
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AAHGS Coral Anniversary Journal

Posted on by Ric Murphy
Ric Murphy's book Freedom Road: An American Family Saga from Jamestown to World War was featured in the Coral Anniversary Edition of the Journal of the African-American Historical and Genealogical Society. The African-American Historical and Genealogical Society promotes the research, documentation and preservation of African American History and Genealogy, and the organization periodically promotes books of scholarly merit for reading. Visit the AAHGS Facebook and website at www.aahgs.org.
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Maurice Barbosa Testimony

Posted on by Ric Murphy
This is the most important book on the struggle for liberty that will likely ever be written, given that Ric Murphy illuminates his own multi-generational family in a continuous line, from Jamestown to Your Town. Could there be another? The magnitude of this family's engagement with the implements of liberty and justice will rock whatever foundations upon which American history had been constructed since books began being written about the Revolutionary War and freedom. With an abiding love for ...
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