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Noose Found At National Museum Of African American History

Museum visitors discovered the noose Wednesday, less than a week after police found a noose hanging from a tree near the Hirshhorn Museum, which is also on the National Mall.
A section of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., was closed for several hours Wednesday after a noose was discovered in an exhibition.

Visitors found a noose Wednesday at an exhibition on segregation at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. — the second time in less than a week that a noose was found on Smithsonian grounds.

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