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PHILADELPHIA – A letter from President Lincoln guaranteeing Frederick Douglass‘ safety, Malcolm X‘s Quran and diary, and Muhammad Ali‘s robe from the “Rumble in the Jungle” are among the artifacts in a new touring black history exhibition.

America I AM: The African American Imprint will open at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia on Jan. 15, Martin Luther King Jr.‘s birthday. Presented by TV personality Tavis Smiley, the show includes more than 200 items from every period of U.S. history. It will travel to nine more cities over the next four years.

Other artifacts on display include the key to King’s jail cell and the stool on which he sat in Birmingham, Ala., where he composed his famous Letter From the Birmingham Jail; the “Doors of No Return,” through which Africans trod before boarding slave ships in what is now Ghana; the desk that literary pioneer Phyllis Wheatley used to write Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, which was published in 1773; and Mary McLeod Bethune’s walking cane, which once belonged to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and was given to Bethune by former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt.

Many of the individual artifacts have been previously seen in various museums, libraries or personal collections, but America I AM is a rare opportunity to see many important objects in one place, said John Fleming, executive producer of the exhibition and director emeritus at the Cincinnati Museum Center.

For more on the exhibit, please visit http://americaiam.org/

To preview the exhibition, click HERE

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As featured on the Tom Joyner Morning Show this morning. If you haven’t already done so, please visit www.americaiam.org and register. Then re-visit the site (in a separate browser window) and follow along the virtual tour as guided by Tavis Smiley for an in-depth look at the unprecedented traveling African-American museum exhibit.

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