DOGE Lists Alabama Civil Rights Museum For Sale

The Alabama Political Reporter reports:

Elon Musk’s DOGE purge now includes the building housing the historic Freedom Rides Museum in Montgomery.

The Montgomery Bus Station, the site where Freedom Riders were attacked by white supremacists in 1961, is owned by the federal government’s General Services Administration. As part of a nationwide cost cutting initiative undertaken by Musk and the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency, a number of federally owned buildings have been listed for sale, including the bus terminal building.

An employee at the museum told APR on Wednesday that it wasn’t yet clear whether the building would be sold, and if so, what that meant for the museum, since no one from GSA had contacted the employees either before or after listing the property. The museum leases the building from GSA.

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This is part of a pattern to rewrite the history of Civil rights and return this country to some form of Jim Crow www.alreporter.com/2025/03/06/h… Historic Montgomery Bus Station, Freedom Riders Museum part of DOGE-ordered sell-off

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