The Mining Your History Foundation plans to lead a Friday rally at the Capitol Complex's Cultural Center to protest "Manchin administration proposals to convert the current location of the archives library in the Cultural Center into a café/catering facility/gift shop," The Charleston Gazette reports.
Organizers say the move was also prompted by the Nov. 1 firing of Fred Armstrong as longtime Archives and History director.
“With Fred’s firing, historians and genealogists realize now they better step up to the plate and do something,” foundation board member Kellis Gillespie told The Gazette.
The West Virginia Library Association, meanwhile, hopes to agree on a formal statement "to make clear to state leaders that they support Armstrong and want his firing reviewed," the Charleston Daily Mail reports.
15 November 2007
Archives Protest Planned
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