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1978: A Year in the Collections

Disco was still going strong after the release of Saturday Night Fever in 1977. The blockbuster exhibition, Treasures of Tutankhamun, continued to tour the country. In September, President Jimmy Carter invited Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Begin to the presidential retreat at Camp David, Maryland, where dual peace accords were negotiated. In October, Pope John Paul II was inaugurated as Pope.


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Pin back button from Commodores 1978 Platinum Tour

Sonny Terry, 1978

Toni Morrison, Slade Morrison, and Ford Morrison

Terrence Johnson’s younger brother demonstrating outside P. G. County Md. Court House for his brother Terrence Johnson’s release from jail

Ticket to a championship boxing match between Muhammad Ali and Leon Spinks

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