Portia James
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"Portia James" is an United States/American curator and historian. A specialist in African-American material culture, she currently works at the Anacostia Community Museum. She has curated exhibitions such as Word, Shout, Song: Lorenzo Dow Turner Connecting Communities Through Language. She has researched the life of Leslie J. Payne and Frederick Douglass.

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The workers were the ones to expose the problem, experiment and come up with a solution. Sometimes it's a matter of jerry-rigging something, and it actually works so well that it becomes a model.

That level of invention takes place in places where blacks were not hired [or enrolled]. They could not actually be ... part of a team of inventors until well after integration.