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April 8, 2011
Miss. lawmakers OK two museums
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Lawmakers approved a bill authorizing the multimillion-dollar construction of two new Mississippi museums — one devoted to the civil rights struggle and another focused on the state's overall history.
Republican Gov. Haley Barbour, a potential 2012 presidential candidate, renewed calls for a civil rights museum early this year after coming under fire for comments in a magazine article in which critics said he downplayed the dangers of the civil rights era in Mississippi.
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