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A The coalition of civil rights groups has started a one -week initiative to condemn Donald Trump's attacks on black history, including the recent execution commands to the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) in Washington DC.

The National Freedom to Learning Campaign is headed by the African American Policy Forum (AAPF), one of the law professor Kimberlé Clshaw co -founded by the legal professor. Clenshaw is a leading expert for critical racial theory (CRT), a framework for analyzing the structural effects of racism. Since the beginning of the campaign against CRT led by Republicans, it has fought bans in 2020, restrictions on racial history and other anti-dei efforts.

“Our goal this week was to flood the zone with black history, as we call it,” said Crenshaw about the campaign. “We understood for a long time that the attacks on ideas that germinate from racial justice were not about the specific goals of every attack … [but are] A effort to force a specific story about the United States of America, which marginalizes and even deletes its more difficult chapters, ”she added.

The one -week campaign will be completed on May 3 with a demonstration and prayer of vigil in front of NMAAHC.

Before the protest, AAPF, the NAACP and six other interest groups, signed an explanation in which Trump was criticized “tried mass deletion of black history and culture”. In March, Trump ordered a revision of the Smithsonian Institution, the world's largest museum network, to destroy what he described as “inappropriate, split or anti -American ideology”. He picked out Naamhc, a museum that has been praised since its opening in 2016.

The confirmation of the coalition was partially: “We confirm that the black history is American history, without which we cannot understand the struggle of our country for freedom or can secure a more democratic future. We have to protect our history not only in books, schools, libraries and universities, but also in museums, memorials and memories.

“I wasn't shocked about it,” said Crenshaw of Trump's executive regulation against Naamhc. “I never thought that these attacks on civil rights, on the same racial equality, would find a natural limit because there is no limit.”

Aapf carried out sessions within the movement of this week to clarify people through Trump's demolition of diversity, justice and inclusion efforts, an element of the wider campaign. About 1,500 people took part in a virtual event entitled Under the Black Light: beyond the first 100 days: racist justice and black history in our struggle for democracy. There, discussion participants, including civil rights director and academic, discussed how the participants could organize increasing censorship in history against Trump. Coffee Meetups and a signal make-up session were organized as additional parts of the campaign and provided further discussions between participants and academics about how Trump's initial management regulations combine with a larger thread of the eroding racial justice.

The group has also started a “black history of challenge”, in which the participants are encouraged to find a historical place or an artifact and to remember it or to recognize it as part of the role of black history in American history. As part of the challenge, Clenshaw published a video on Bruce's Beach's social media in Manhattan Beach, California. There, 1912, a black pair of land bought the sea and built a resort for blacks. The property was later confiscated by the city under the patronage of the important domain. “It is important to tell these stories so that people understand that it is not a natural reality that many black people do not have a band ownership or that we have no transnational hotel chains of blacks,” said Clenshaw. “These things are actually created by the weapons of law to force white, exclusive rights and privileges.”

The one -week campaign comes when the Trump government has tried to eliminate diversity, justice and inclusion efforts (Dei) at all levels of the local and federal government since the beginning of its second term. Trump has threatened to withhold the federal financing of public schools that do not end their programming. He later signed Executive Orders to determine the variety of universities and universities.

Clenshaw added: “If you want to maintain this idea to make America great again, then you have to delete the possibilities that it was not great all the time. We have always understood that the final was the removal of any recognition that our country had challenges in relation to racial and other forms in relation to races and other forms.”

In response to this, interest groups have teamed up in order to steer their outrage into the collective action of the campaign and the protest. “We want to be sure that we can preserve the real experiences of those who have in addition to artifacts [undergone] The oppressive past of African Americans and how this experience of resilience is important today, ”said Reverend Shavon Arline-Bradley, President of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW).

A partnership, especially in view of the importance of the NMAAHC, felt like the most important way forward, said Arline-Bradley. “This is really a collective, multirassical, multicultural, several experience, coalition that says no. If you take our history away when you take away African -American history, you really try to take culture away.”