Dearborn, Mich. (AP) – Museums across the United States display artifacts that represent and reflect groundbreaking events of the civil rights era. Visitors to Henry Ford near Detroit can see the bus Rosa Parks When she refused to give up her white seat in 1955, Pastor Martin Luther King Jr. Planned voting rights march.
“What we’re doing here helps us describe our stories as a community, as a culture, as a society of people who may not have experienced it, those who may not remember it, or those who may have a different memory from what we collectively understand,” said Amber Mitchell, curator of black history at Henry Ford.
Public access to these items on federal sites is Restrictions or Prohibitions Under rules that seek to ban what the president calls “schismatic” ideology under the Trump administration, which acknowledges the role racism plays in American history and culture.
Artifacts include:
– Clark dolla plastic skin-skin toy doll used in the 1940s by psychologists Kenneth and Mammy Clark while studying the effects of quarantine on black children. The doll is on permanent display at Brown vs. Board of Education National Historic Site in Topeka, Kansas.
– Stained glass fragments It is displayed at the Museum of African American History and Culture through the windows of Baptist Church on 16th Avenue in Birmingham, Alabama. White supremacists in Washington, DC bombed churches in 1963, killing four black girls attending Sunday school.
– Part of the car owned NAACP activist Vernon Dahmer He receives long-term loans to the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson, Mississippi. Ku Klux Klan shot and fired Dahmer’s house in 1966. Recruiting blacks to vote, Dahmer saves his family and runs away in a car, but dies the next day from inhaling smoke.
– Fountain pen It is used by President Lyndon B. Johnson to sign the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
– Executive Orders 9980 and 9981 that separate US military and federal government At the National ArchivesHowever, the copy is on display Harry S. Truman Presidential Library Independence, Missouri. Truman issued an order in 1948 after the assault that left Sgt. Isaac Woodard Blind. Woodard had served in World War II in 1946 before returning to South Carolina in 1946. Woodward was still in his uniform when he was assaulted. An all-white ju-described chief.
