Project to record blacks' oral histories

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WASHINGTON - The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced a project Wednesday that hopes to record at least 1,500 oral histories from black families over the next year.

The recordings are to be placed at the Library of Congress and in the archives of the Smithsonian Institution's future National Museum of African American History and Culture.

"One of the greatest treasures of African America is the stories, the words, the family memories," said Lonnie Bunch, director of the museum, which is planned for the National Mall.

"In essence, this is really one of the ways we will help America to remember by preserving those words," he said.

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