Residents of Mississippi were angered over a billboard that appeared in Pearl, Mississippi, with President-elect Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” campaign slogan imposed on a historic civil rights photograph. Super PAC For Freedoms, the group that constructed the billboard, has since agreed to take it down following the backlash.
The original image is called “Two Minute Warning” and shows civil rights leaders and Alabama police officers just minutes before “Bloody Sunday” in 1965.
The billboard goes beyond just the town of Pearl, according to Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, who said of the group and its billboard, “It’s disappointing that this group would use this image as an attempt to divide the country.”
