On Monday, ground will be broken on the new Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. This $500 million project is just one of the many being erected in major cities dedicated to African American history and the civil rights movement: Atlanta, Jackson and Charleston all have projects in the works. These projects mark an emerging era of scholarship and interest in the history of the civil rights movement, providing the public with new insights.
Doug Shipman is CEO of the National Center for Civil and Human Rights. Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad is director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
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Mr. Keepler - Rather than a critique, what about expending mental energy on making the narrative broader and more accurate? How to fill the museum with less disney and more truth, more meaning?
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Thank you for doing this story!
Do the "authenticity and flexibility" of these projects extend to countering the prevailing leftist narrative of the Civil Rights Movement?
Is there any education about how the viciously oppressive culture of the Solid South was dominated by the Democratic Party and how the Radical Republican movement challenged them with demands for full equality for African-Americans?
In the Holocaust Museum the Nazi Party is named as the oppressors of the Jews yet is the Democratic Party similarly named as oppressors in a discussion of Civil Rights era with the Republican Party named as the political engineer of emancipation and full equality?
If not, why not?
Race and geography is emphasized in these discussions but the political landscape that imbued the legal and cultural conditions is often ignored.
The same people who call for an unvarnished telling of the history of the Civil Rights movement seems to be very good at political self censorship when the roles of the Democratic and Republican Parties are deliberately deleted from the narrative.
Will knowledge of the role the Democratic Party played in enslavement, Reconstruction and segregation and the Republican Party's opposition to those atrocities effect the political identification of young people today?
Must the cherished "progressive" narrative be maintained at the cost of factual history?
Yet another museum is needed.
Developing and building to
Honor and enducate.
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