National Park Service removes references to Harriet Tubman from ‘Underground Railroad’ webpage

The Quiet Deletion of Black History Within Federal Agencies — and the Fight to Stop It

Alan Spears remembers visiting Gettysburg National Military Park with his parents in the 1970s. They wanted something educational, free, and fun to do with their only son, and the park was an obvious choice, given Spears’ interests — his favorite television show as a child was The Rat Patrol, about soldiers during World War II. It was there, at the Pennsylvania park, a roughly 1½-hour drive from Washington, D.C., that Spears became infatuated wi…

The Trump Administration’s Assaults on Black History

This week, it was reported that the United States National Park Service had begun scrubbing information from its exhibits about Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad; one of the most significant stories of resistance against chattel slavery in the United States. The move would have destroyed knowledge about how oppressed people in the United States have successfully fought for freedom. While the Park Service walked back the revisions after…

Trump administration’s edits are about race-based erasure — not race-blind policy

The last living link of my family’s story of origin in antebellum Southern Virginia died at age 105 a few years ago.My grandmother, Mamie Todd, was born in 1916. Her grandparents were born into slavery. She fought Jim Crow. She stood up for Black teachers and students in a segregated school system in which she taught in her early career. She supported my mom when, at 12, she signed on as a named plaintiff in one of the feeder cases to Brown v. B…

NPS restores Harriet Tubman mention in Underground Railroad page after edits made ‘without approval’

The National Park Service reversed controversial edits to a webpage about Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad she helped lead in the 1800s. On Sunday, it was revealed that references, an image, and a quote attributed to Tubman had been…

Harriet Tubman quote restored to National Parks’ Underground Railroad webpage after backlash - National

'Changes to the Underground Railroad page on the National Park Service’s website were made without approval from NPS leadership nor Department leadership,' a spokesperson said.

National Park Service restores removed Harriet Tubman webpage after backlash

NPS said its leadership did not approve changes to Underground Railroad pages