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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Kelly Rissman

Civil rights leaders alarmed after bible and other artifacts are removed from Smithsonian African-American museum

A Bible carried during civil rights demonstrations and other artifacts are being quietly removed from the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the nation’s capital, according to reports.

Rev. Amos Brown, a pastor and civil rights activist for more than five decades, received an email from the museum informing him that a Bible he carried during civil rights protests with Dr. Martin Luther King as well as other pieces he donated would soon be returned to him, he told WUSA9.

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