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The Long Road to Hard Truth: The 100-Year Mission to Establish the National Museum of African American History and Culture

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The Long Road to Hard Truth: The 100-Year Mission to Establish the National Museum of African American History and Culture
Author: Judge Robert L. Wilkins
Genres: Civil Rights, Education, Historical

In Long Road to Hard Truth: The 100 Year Mission to Create the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Robert L. Wilkins tells the story of how his curiosity about why there wasn't a national museum dedicated to African American history and culture became an obsession-eventually leading him to quit his job as an attorney when his wife was seven months pregnant with their second child, and make it his mission to help the museum become a reality.

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Long Road to Hard Truth chronicles the early history, when staunch advocates sought to create a monument for Black soldiers fifty years after the end of the Civil War and in response to the pervasive indignities of the time, including lynching, Jim Crow segregation, and the slander of the racist film Birth of a Nation. The movement soon evolved to envision creating a national museum, and Wilkins follows the endless obstacles through the decades, culminating in his honor of becoming a member of the Presidential Commission that wrote the plan for creating the museum and how, with support of both Black and White Democrats and Republicans, Congress finally authorized the museum. In September 2016, exactly 100 years after the movement to create it began, the Smithsonian will open the National Museum of African American History and Culture. The book’s title is inspired in part by James Baldwin, who testified in Congress in 1968 that “My history… contains the truth about America. It is going to be hard to teach it.” Long Road to Hard Truth concludes that this journey took 100 years because many in America are unwilling to confront the history of America’s legacy of slavery and discrimination, and that the only reason this museum finally became a reality is that an unlikely, bipartisan coalition of political leaders had the courage and wisdom to declare that America could not, and should not, continue to evade the hard truth.

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Colin, you are unquestionably the truest friend to the human race, especially the Black race to ever play NFL football. Just be still and know that God is God. Your time and payday is coming. It takes a God fearing man to do what you did and not one begging for the devil's pennies. What profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul? For certain money couldn't purchase Colin Kaepernick's SOUL. I love and respect you my BROTHER. I don't have the high profile as you but I'm on the battlefield.

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everyone that has settled a case, had to be wrong? Oprah Winfrey settled several, Michael Jackson settled, Al Sharpton settled. lol

LMBAO! He is FINISHED! 😂 #MAGA🇺🇸

All he did was expose the NFL as the bigots they are! A silly solve nothing protest caused bigots as they are prone to to overreach! He got paid most of the other players did nothing and the beat goes on!

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In my eyes they lost.. they have said its not about the money and they gave up an opportunity to make sure that this never happens to another individual in the NFL again. They should have seen it all the way through so that the NFL’s owners would be exposed. Now well never know for sure because of a confidentiality agreement.

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CONGRATS GUYS!! Just a little patience, perseverance & unrelenting FAITH in what you KNOW 2b the TRUTH = VICTORY!!!!

60-80 million $$$over 😂😂

Still no job

He could volunteer at the YMCA then Joey!

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He should have a job...

Still a shitty QB...which is why they couldn't prove collusion

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