Executive directors of two Suffolk museums have been temporarily suspended over a 1920s advertisement for a Ku Klux Klan meeting that was posted to the web.

The Suffolk County Historical Society Museum emailed the advertisement as part of its online photo of the week newsletter. The Southampton History Museum circulated similar photos.

A news conference about the circulation of the photos took place Friday with members of the NAACP and elected officials speaking out.

"I'm here to join in solidarity to condemn this lack of solidarity," said Suffolk Legislator Bridget Fleming.

The NAACP says they have thousands of examples that highlight the achievements of Black Americans that could have been the focus this month.

"It cast a cloud over our Black History Month," said Father Patrick Edwards, Southampton History Musuem board president. "And it is particularly shameful and deeply regretted by us."

Victoria Berger, the executive director of the Suffolk County Historical Society, said she's "heartbroken."

"I am impassioned to make this better," Berger said. "This is not who we are as an organization, and we will never be in this place again."

NAACP Eastern Long Island Branch President Lawrence Street says they are willing to sit at the table and talk.

"Our doors are always open...to try and make this a better world," Street said.