Posted on 02/15/2022 5:13:40 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Interior Secretary Deb Haaland toured Mississippi civil rights sites Tuesday, seeing the crumbling rural store that’s part of the history of the 1955 lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till and touring the home where state NAACP leader Medgar Evers was assassinated in 1963.
Haaland traveled with White House Council on Environmental Quality Chair Brenda Mallory and Democratic U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson. The sites are in Thompson’s district, which encompasses the Delta flatlands and much of Mississippi’s capital city of Jackson.
Haaland said she heard from young people who did not learn about Till while they were in school but have learned about him since then.
Haaland said the Interior Department and the National Park Service have no immediate plans to take supervision of other civil rights sites.
“Of course, if additional sites are taken in under the National Park Service — whether they’re national monuments, national parks, under that umbrella — then of course we have an obligation,” Haaland said.
Thompson stepped in and said: “What she said is, if the Congress gives her the money, she’ll do it.”
The congressman said he would like the National Park Service to have a civil rights trail to document and preserve sites across the South.
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Female plus Native American - resident Biden has those boxes checked!
Time for the civil rights quiz:
1. Which political party controlled the south from the Civil War until the 1960s?
2. What actions did that party take to control black Americans?
3. What was their terrorist organization named?
Oh Lordy.
Here we go. More beating up the US as much as possible to have everyone self-flagellating so we can get rid of the Constitution.
Wow can’t wait to visit these sites. Should be fun for the whole family.
She’s an idiot. Why didn’t she tour these joints when she was traveling on her own dollar? I don’t think she GAS during that time.
Excuse my ignorance but what the hell is a “civil rights site”?
“crumbling rural store”
The ‘hood’ doesn’t care and neither do I.
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