Stock Photo - United States President George W. Bush signs H. R. 3491, the National Museum of African-American History and Culture Act, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC on December 16, 2003. The act authorizes the creation of a Smithsonian Institution museum dedicated to the legacy of African Americans in America. Unless otherwise noted, the attendees are members of the Presidential Commission on the Development of the National Museum of African-American History and Culture. From left, they are 1. Doctor Robert Wright, commission Chairman; 2. Renee Amoore; 3. Vicky Bailey; 4. Andrew McLemore, Jr.; 5. United States Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, Democrat of the District of Columbia); 6. United States Senator Rick Santorum, (Republican of Pennsylvania; 7. Michael Lomax; 8. United States Representative John Lewis, (Democrat of Georgia); 9. Harold Skramstad, Jr.; 10. Barbara Franco; 11. Robert Wilkins; 12. United States Senator Sam Brownback, (Republican of Kansas); 13. Cicely Tyson; 14. Lerone Bennett, Jr.; 15. United States Representative John Larson, (Democrat of Connecticut); 16. Eric Sexton; 17. Claudine Brown; 18. Larry Small, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution; 19. Currie Ballard. | usage worldwide. - Washington/District of Columbia/United States of America