Trump’s Planned Visit to Civil Rights Museum


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DATE: Dec. 9, 2017, 6:14 a.m.

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  1. President Donald Trump will visit Jackson, Mississippi, on Saturday for the dedication of a new museum honoring the heroes of the civil rights movement.
  2. But the plan for him to speak publicly at the opening ceremony so repulsed many who see him as a divisive figure on civil rights—triggering calls for protests and a boycott by several prominent civil rights leaders—that organizers scrambled Friday to arrange for the president to speak at a private program instead

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