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Uphill Climb For The National American Latino Museum

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First Posted: 12/25/2011 2:28 pm Updated: 12/25/2011 2:28 pm

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LOS ANGELES — Television's highest-earning actress and a San Francisco art museum chief are two of the key figures in the bid to establish a new museum on the Mall devoted to the history and culture of American Latinos.

But Eva Longoria, who will rally public support for a bill in Congress to create the museum, and Jonathan Yorba, chairman of the museum-lobbying group that picked her, also played key roles in the creation of a problem-plagued Los Angeles museum and cultural center focused on the contributions of Mexican Americans in Southern California.

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LOS ANGELES — Television's highest-earning actress and a San Francisco art museum chief are two of the key figures in the bid to establish a new museum on the Mall devoted to the history and culture...
LOS ANGELES — Television's highest-earning actress and a San Francisco art museum chief are two of the key figures in the bid to establish a new museum on the Mall devoted to the history and culture...
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10:09 AM on 12/28/2011
All I want to know is where the English-American, French-Ameican and German- American musuems are located on the Mall, since the the mahjority of Americans have at least some ancestry from these groups and were undeniably, along with other people of other European ancestry, the builders and backbone of America from the late 1600's through now.
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