Ruth Steele is chief executive director 33866v
Ruth Steele is chief executive director of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Cultural Center and Museum in Pueblo, Colorado. Its cluster of buildings were once the Lincoln Home, which was long the only Colored Orphanage and Old Folks Home (the actual title) west of the Mississippi River In 1993. Once supported by sixteen Federated Colored Women’s Clubs throughout the state, its buildings were donated to the Martin Luther King Holiday Commission and to Ms. Steele, its longtime member, in order to create the cultural center and museum. Opened in 1997, the center is now (2015) a repository of African-American heritage and a meeting placefor dialogue about race relations. Creator(s): Highsmith, Carol M., 1946-, photographer Date Created/Published: 2015-09-01. Medium:.C. 20540 USA Notes: Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Once the Lincoln Home, which was long the on
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- 2015
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- Carol M. Highsmith Archive
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- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
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