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Black History Month is every month at the Missouri History Museum.

A display on civil rights is part of the timeline visitors walk through no matter when they visit. But February, which has been specially designated as Black History Month since 1976, takes on new meaning each year for those who curate Missouri’s flagship house of history.

“We still have a long way to go,” Shakia Gullette, who coordinates Black History Month events at the museum, said in an interview. “It would be nice if we could celebrate more African-American history in the school system, in our schools, but we have definitely made leaps and bounds.

“And more people are celebrating every day, and those that are not African-American, so it is becoming American history.”

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