NEW YORK (The Thursday Times) — Amriki shimal mein shehri huqooq ki jaddojehad ke liye waqf New York shehar ka pehla museum haftay ko Harlem mein khul gaya, jab National Urban League ne 125th Street par apne naye sadr daftar mein Urban Civil Rights Museum ki naqab kushai ki.
Yeh museum Urban League Empowerment Center ki chauthi manzil par taqreeban 12 hazaar murabba foot (lag bhag 1,100 murabba meter) par phaila hua hai, jo Apollo Theater aur Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture se chand galiyon ke faasle par hai. Is mein aik mustaqil installation ke saath badalti galleries, record shuda taqareer aur zubani tareekhein shamil hain.
Amrica bhar mein shehri huqooq ke darjanon museum hain jin mein se zyada tar junoobi riyaston mein hain. Urban League ka kehna hai ke in mein se kisi ne bhi shimal par tawajjo nahin di, jahan Great Migration ke dauran gehre junoob se aane wale siyah faam khandanon ko rihaish, schoolon aur mulazmaton mein apni tarah ki alehdagi ka samna karna para.
Ghulamon ki tijarat se aaj tak
Mustaqil numaish Moving History Forward 1500 ki dahai se aaj tak insaaf ki larai ka ihata karti hai. Ibtidai numaishein Bahr-e-Aqiyanoos ke aar paar ghulamon ki tijarat, Great Migration ki dono lehron aur shehri huqooq ki tehreek aur us ki meeras ko pesh karti hain. Raaye ki deewaron par zaireen se poocha jata hai ke kya unhon ne kabhi kisi ehtijaj mein hissa liya ya koi mamnooa kitab parhi, aur pehli aarzi numaish 17 May 2027 tak jari rahegi.
Museum ki bani executive director aur chief curator Jennifer Scott ne kaha, “Hum chahte hain ke log jaanein ke woh is ke ahem shareek hain. Tareekh zinda hai, yeh adhoori hai, aur hum is par asar daal sakte hain.”
Urban League ke sadr aur chief executive Marc Morial ne kaha ke museum ka naam use is mohalle se jorne ke liye rakha gaya hai. Unhon ne kaha, “Ise Harlem ka Urban Civil Rights Museum kehna use aik jagah se jorta hai, aur yahi jagah kahani sunati hai.”
‘Apni tamam khamiyon ke saath’
Yeh iftitah aise waqt mein hua hai jab kuch Amriki museum nasl ke mauzoo ko pesh karne ke tareeqe par dabao ka samna kar rahe hain. Guzishta saal Trump administration ne wafaqi rehnumai mein chalne wale museums ka jaiza lene ka hukm diya tha, jise us ne “tafarqa angez, nasl par markooz nazariya” qarar diya tha.
Morial ne kaha ke museum tareekh ko “us ki tamam khoobsurati aur tamam khamiyon ke saath” bayan karega aur use “kisi bhi tarah kam ya dabaya nahin jayega”. Scott ne kaha ke galleries Harlem Renaissance ki shabeena zindagi se le kar siyah faam sahafat tak, maqami kahaniyon ki “sirf sath ko chhoo rahi hain”.
1910 mein qaim hone wali Urban League, jo Amrica mein shehri huqooq ki qadeem tareen tanzeemon mein se aik hai, waqt ke saath numaishein badalne ka irada rakhti hai. Morial ne kaha, “Yeh museum jamid nahin hai. Hum ne to abhi aaghaz kiya hai.”
