Dearborn, Michigan (AP) – Brick bricks, beams by beams, iron fragments, Pastor Martin Luther King Jr. Others have planned Margins in favour of black voting rights In Deep South, trucks are being transported from Alabama to a museum near Detroit.
A complex operation to move and save Jackson’s home and other artifacts preceded President Donald Trump Efforts to eradicate He calls it “division” and “racially centred ideology,” minimizing race, racism and cultural and historical influences of Black Americans.
Purge of cards I tried to remove all references Diversity, equity, inclusion From the federal government and labor forceand many Private companies I followed suit. Facilities that house some of the most important ones African American History Reminders – include Smithsonian Association In Washington, DC, we are under certain pressure.
The CEO of Henry Ford, a new location in Jackson’s home, claims that the museum has no political agenda.
“Henry Ford’s work focuses on a good, factual public history,” Patricia Mouradian told The Associated Press.
Jackson’s House
King was often at the homes of Dr. Sullivan and Dr. Richie Jan Jackson in Selma, Alabama, during a pivotal year of the civil rights movement in the early ’60s. It was within the walls of a 3,000-square-foot bungalow that helped pioneer the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Javana Jackson said she decided to ask the Associated Press in 2023 Henry Ford – History Museum Complex in Dearborn, Michigan – She believes, so to relocate and preserve the parents’ home and its contents. The house belonged to the world. ”
The building was disassembled and carried over 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers); Greenfield Village Henry Ford and the archivists have digitized and cataloged the roughly 6,000 items contained within. They show the efforts of the movement for equal rights Often violent reactions Angry mob and police.
“The fact that the Jacksons saved things for this long may be out of date or old, but they knew the importance of everything that has in the house and saved them and preserved them,” Mooradian said.
Another way of looking at American history
The second Trump administration has made it clear that it is not acceptable to see history through what is considered “awakening” or anti-white lenses. The president made a specific move to remove references to race, gender and sexuality divisions in national institutions.
Last week, the Smithsonian Association References to two Trump bullets each in 2019 and 2021, deleted from the exhibition. The House of Representatives’ democratic majority voted for each bullet each. The Republican-led Senate acquitted Trump every time.
A Smithsonian spokesman said the exhibit would ultimately include “all bullets each.”
The US has withdrawn United Nations Cultural Organization According to the White House, UNESCO also fired Trump “advocates awakened, divisive cultural and social causes that are not at all stages from the common sense policies that Americans voted for in November.” Kennedy Center Board And we’ve made a lot of money for National Fund for the Arts and the National Fund for the Humanities.
The President issued it Presidential Order The title, “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” is Smithsonian Association – A vast complex of museums, galleries and zoos – for what he calls “a broad effort to rewrite history.”
For Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
“Once well-respected as a symbol of American excellence and cultural achievements, the Smithsonian Association has been under the influence of divisive, racially centred ideology in recent years,” writes Trump. “This change has encouraged a narrative that portrays American and Western values as inherently harmful and oppressive.”
Mooladan said she was saddened by the order.
“I think museums are an important part of our culture and heritage, not just in this country but around the world,” she said. “And it’s important that we speak the truth. It’s important that people look to us for the truth, not for opinions, not for judgment.”
“Let’s clear our identities.”
A few weeks after Trump’s March executive order, Pastor Amos Brown, The Prime Minister of San Francisco’s Third Baptist Church, a civil rights activist, said he was informed that books on Bible and Black History from two families that were loaned to the African American History Museum in 2016 would be removed from the collection.
Brown blamed the president on the snub and called it an attempt to “clean our identity.” He said last month that the book had not been returned to him.
Smithsonian It was stated in a June statement “We routinely return artifacts with each applicable loan agreement, rotate objects on display according to Smithsonian’s high standards of care and storage, and as part of regular museum departures.”
The Smithsonian and the African American Museum have not responded to requests for AP interviews.
“We’re not going to hide the pain.”
The Museum of African American History and Culture and the Museum of American History holds some of the most iconic artefacts of the civil rights era, including lunch counters and stools in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Other items are on display at US museums
Mississippi Civil Rights Museum In Jackson, the door was rented out from a grocery store where an eyewitness said he was 14 years old. Emmettil Chicago was his mouthed by a white woman in 1955. Soon he was accused and his body was later pulled from the river.
“We can be guardians of these very few vulnerable ruins,” said Kathryn Etre, director of the Department of Conservation for the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. “We are not going to hide the pain and all the fears and all the horrors that have happened. We try to bias ourselves and tell every aspect of the story.”
