As both a historian and a daughter of the late Marlon D. Green, the U.S. Air Force pilot who pursued the successful legal challenge against racial discrimination that opened up commercial aviation in the 1960s, I write with great concern about President Trump’s “Fact Sheet” that was issued on March 27.President Trump aims to “restore truth and sanity to American history,” yet so many of the directives of his administration the past two months have done just the opposite.Removing the names and achievements of countless individuals from plaques, museums and websites does not restore truth. It abuses and distorts it.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementWorse, these erasures are visible to young people, who now have many avenues to seek out information that has been hidden from them. They know that America’s history is complex. And they can handle the truth.Acknowledging that race has been a part of U.S. history does not diminish us. It allows us to see where we have come from and direct our future differently.My father’s case is part of the U.S. Supreme Court’s legacy. That Civil Rights achievements should be acknowledged by the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum is both fitting and just.Monica Green, PhoenixArizona needs a 6th economic ‘C’: Computer chipsI read the “We Got Cows” article on the importance of cattle to our economy, and tha …
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