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2: This first panel in the museum surprised me when I first saw it in 2017: The nations we are familiar with today solidified their very existence through the wealth derived from trafficking slaves.

3: This panel makes clear how the wealth of America's elite and key provisions of our Constitution have their roots in slavery.

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7: This lunch counter stool brought tears to my eyes when I first saw it at the American History Museum, with three other stools from the Greensboro Woolworths. The volunteer at the welcome desk did not know where the other three stools are now.

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20: W.E.B. Du Bois hand drew these and other charts to explain the history and condition of African American for the 1900 Paris Exhibition.

21: The red spiral shows how the large majority of African Americans lived in rural areas in 1890.

22: Maxwell Gaines reprinted this 1953 comic book, Judgment Day, in 1956 despite an order by the Comics Code Authority to change this depiction of the hero from Black to White.

23: Afronauts, a Ghanian science fiction movie.

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29: The Mirror Casket, carried in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014 to protest the killing of Michael Brown, Jr.

30: Congolese artist Bodys Isek Kingelez made this model out of inexpensive materials to create a vision of future African cities as part of "a better, more peaceful world."

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33: The Slave Wrecks Project searches and retreives artifacts of the global slave trade.

34: Artifacts of a slave ship recovered by the Slave Wrecks Project.

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36: Car from The Green Book.

37: Interactive exhibits allows users to explore artifacts.

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46: This sculpture by Nigerian Olowe of Ise inspired the shape of the Museum's exterior.

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48: The P-Funk Mothership, a symbol of the liberating power of music.

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50: "Freedom Quilt" by Jesse B. Telfair, a kitchen worker in Parrott, Georgia, who was fired after registering to vote.