Over the last year, the Trump administration has made a concerted effort to remove Black history exhibits from national parks and monuments.
Senior Judge Cynthia M. Rufe ordered the Park Service to restore the exhibit to the way it was on Jan. 21 before the Trump admin changed it.
The brochures described Byron De La Beckwith, the Klan member who killed Evers, as racist, something the Trump administration objects to.
Professor Keisha Blain explains how the federal government is being weaponized to continually erase Black History from public spaces.
The National Park Service began removing a slavery memorial at the President’s House in Philadelphia in compliance with Trump's Executive Order.
In June 2020, protesters defaced the statue of Confederate Gen. Albert Pike. They used rope to tear it down, spray-painted it, and set it on fire.