The following article by Eli Rosenberg was posted on the Washington Post website December 6, 2017:
The NAACP is urging President Trump to skip the opening celebration for a civil rights museum in Mississippi, which he plans to attend, with the organization’s leader sharply criticizing the president’s record on civil rights.
The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, a project of the state’s Department of Archives and History, is set to open with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Saturday in Jackson, the state capital. The event will feature speeches from civil rights leaders and elected officials, including Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant (R), who extended the invitation to the president.
But NAACP President Derrick Johnson said in a sharply worded statement that Trump’s attendance would be an “affront” to the movement commemorated by the museum. Continue reading “Trump should skip Civil Rights Museum opening, NAACP says, calling his plans to attend ‘an insult’”