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These museums were ahead of the times and eventually were the cause of traditional museums to produce results of more inclusivity in larger museums. Eventually, The Anacostia Community Museum’s success paved the way for change in the other Smithsonian museums in D.C. And eventually because of this, “museums with significantly larger budgets sought to ‘mainstream’ African American history and culture in their programs” (Burns 138). The museums, like the Anacostia Community Museum, created community engagement and traveling museum exhibitions to reach the largest amount of people possible and inspired change in other more traditional museums across the United