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Beautiful, so moving, and a testament to Miss Jefferson’s/Lizzo’s talent as a professionally trained flautist!

Flautist Melissa Jefferson plays slaver James Madison's 200-year-old crystal flute in the Library of Congress.

This edition reproduces the files of the NAACP legal department regarding complaints about segregation and exclusion in places of public accommodation and recreation between 1940 and 1955. Highlights of the National Committee on Segregation in the Nation's Capital file include the committee's opposition to a plan to segregate D.C. parks in 1949. There is also a major report drafted by the committee that covers the broad subject of race relations in the District in 1949, with a special emphasis on housing segregation. This committee, founded in 1946, included E. Franklin Frazier, Charles H. Houston, Hubert Humphrey, Mordecai Johnson, Peter Odegard, Walter Reuther and Eleanor Roosevelt.

and then stomps on him!!! 

Trivia Tuesday #4

The largest library in the world is the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. in the United States. It has more than 170 million items. It's also one of the most beautiful!

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Learn more about the Library of Congress here! You can also read more about the top 10 largest libraries in the world and the most beautiful libraries in the United States.

Hand-tinted photograph of Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1903) by Frances Benjamin Johnston. Library of Congress.

SS Imperator (1913) in Hamburg. Library of Congress.

Resurrection Church in Kostroma (1910), photograph by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky. Library of Congress.

Spa, Belgium (c. 1895), photochrom print. Library of Congress.

The castle and bridge at Pau, France. Photochrom print between 1890 and 1900. Library of Congress.