The Trump administration launched the Secretary of the Congress Library, Carla d. Dr. Hayden was the first of the African American origin and the first woman to work as the head of the Foundation.
Dr. Hayden, who was appointed as the fourteenth library of Congress by President Barack Obama in 2016, supervised the library through President Trump’s first term. The library, the oldest cultural management institution in the United States, rarely gets a new leader. Dr. Hayden was the first since 1987.
She was expelled in an email from a tour of Trent Morsi, a member of the White House staff, according to a snapshot by Senator Martin Heinrich from New Mexico, the Great Democrat at the Credit Committee in the Legislative Branch.
“On behalf of President Donald J. Trump, I write to inform you that your position as a Congress library has been in effect immediately,” said the email, without indicating a reason. “Thank you for your service.”
A spokesman for the Congress Library, RosWell Encina, confirmed the shooting. She arrived over the phone, and Dr. Hayden, 72, refused to comment.
Actor Hakim Jeffrez from New York, the leader of the democratic minority, issued a statement described by Dr. Heiden as a “accomplished, principled and distinguished” leader of the library.
Mr. Jeffrez said: “Donald Trump’s unfair decision to shoot at Dr. Hayden in an email sent by a random political penetration is a stigma and the latest in his constant effort to ban books, and to promote American history and restore the hour.”
Mr. Morse did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Since his return to office, President Trump has moved quickly to confirm control of American cultural institutions, Seizure John F. Kennedy for theatrical arts and declaring war on Ivy League Universities.
A batch of disinfection of signals led to diversity and integration into a page on the life of Jackie Robinson and the military profession temporarily Fading From the Pentagon website. Web pages National Cemetery in Arlington Shedding light on graves Members of the black and female service disappeared. Books, including the “killing of the emulator”, which is Harper Lee’s account of racism in the south of the depression, have been cleared of schools run by the Ministry of Defense, According to a lawsuit It was presented by the American Civil Liberties Union.
Congress Library, which describes itself as the largest library in the world, is home to Millions of elementsWith collections of books on foreign languages and the history of the world, as well as music, films and newspapers. It is a search arm in Congress and is open to the public.
Actress Rosa Deloro, the largest Democrat at the credit committee, said Dr. Hayden was widely admired by members of Congress.
“Her dismissal is not just an insult to her historical service, but rather a direct attack on the independence of one of our most righteous institutions,” Ms. Deloro said in a statement.
Dr. Hayden became the Secretary of the Library of Congress After a long run As a large library secretary in Baltimore, her home for a long time, as she repaired the defaulting public libraries system in the city.
She knew Mr. Obama from her early days as a library working in the Chicago Public Library. It started as a librarian in Chicago in 1973 and eventually became the city’s secretary.
But she endured a special appreciation of the Library of Congress, which she described as the “Treasure Fund”.
“It is like heaven,” she said in a The video was published By the White House Obama when it was A candidate to be the librarian From Congress. In the video, reflected on it The situation as the first female And the first black library secretary in Congress, saying that its choice showed “what could be a national library.”
“It is comprehensive,” she said. “It can be part of everyone’s story. I believe in libraries that can be a civilized society, and a country is open to all.”
Katie Edmondson and Emily Kokran The reports contributed.
