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Lonnie Bunch

Historian, 14th Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution · United States · Educators · Born 1952 · age 73

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Lonnie Griffith Bunch III is an American educator and historian. Bunch is the fourteenth secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, the first African American and first historian to serve as head of the Smithsonian. He has spent most of his career as a history museum curator and administrator.

A life in dates

2020Dan David PrizeAward2019Four Freedoms Award - Freedom MedalAward2017Friend of History AwardAward1952Born18 November 1952

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Bunch moderating a civil rights panel at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum in 2014Bunch moderating a civil rights panel at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum in 2014Bunch and Kinshasha Holman Conwill at the future location of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in 2006Bunch and Kinshasha Holman Conwill at the future location of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in 2006

Awards

Dan David Prize2020
Four Freedoms Award - Freedom Medal2019
Friend of History Award2017
W. E. B. Du Bois Medal

About this person

Country
United States
Category
Educators
Type
Educator
Status
living
Dates
Born 1952 · age 73

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