An exhibit honoring Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas opened Sunday at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.
For much of its inaugural year, the museum only acknowledged Anita Hill, the he woman who accused Thomas of sexual harassment during his 1991 confirmation hearing. The move prompted criticism from lawmakers who claimed the downplaying of Thomas was evidence of “racism” by progressives.
An exhibit features testimonies underscoring Hill’s courage and the surge of women’s activism that ensued, while making only a peripheral reference to the nation’s second black Supreme Court justice.
Now an updated exhibit called “The Supreme Court,” honors both black justices who have sat upon the nation’s highest court.
“There is a label for Thurgood Marshall and one for Clarence Thomas, the two African Americans who have served on the Supreme Court,” Linda St. Thomas, chief spokesperson for the Smithsonian Institution, told the Washington Times.
The exhibit also spotlights Supreme Court rulings that were “landmark decisions on matters of race, as well as issues of ancestry, ethnicity and tribal sovereignty.”
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