OP-ED: Honest Telling of American History in Peril
Image from the collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
OP-ED
BY LAWNSIDE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
LAWNSIDE — “No lie can live forever” is a comforting quote attributed to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
He was assassinated on April 4 in 1968. As we are witnessing, however, falsehoods can wreak havoc for some time before they crumble under their own odious weight.
The federal administration’s hit list includes an ever-widening array of agencies central to the vitality of our democracy. Libraries, museums, free speech, fact-based history and historians are all essential.
Yet the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Park Service have been gutted.
The magnificent National Museum of African American History and Culture is being menaced. All have been of tremendous benefit to our small historical society.
Please don’t sit idly by as these entities are shuttered. Write, call and email your senators, representatives and encourage others to do the same. We must be vocal, vigilant, and unwavering. Especially as we work to restore, uncover and reclaim the history of Africans in the diaspora.
Let freedom ring. Let freedom ring. Let freedom ring!
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