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DAR National Headquarters is closed to the public for the 135th Continental Congress from Monday June 22 - Saturday June 26. 
We are excited to welcome so many members to Washington, D.C. for an incredible week!

 

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Museum Tuesday Talk: Headwraps of African Women in 18th and 19th Century America

12:00-1:00

Find out how headwraps on both free and enslaved African women in America changed from region to region, and the cultural and historical significance of styles. You will also be able to view and handle the different fabrics that were available to these women.

Speaker: Cheyney McKnight, Public Historian and Proprietor of Not Your Momma's History

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