Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History
The exhibit, which opened in 2010, honors the lives of the nine enslaved people held there who were owned as property by President George Washington.
After the weather took a turn during their display of white patriot pride, MAGA had to take refuge inside the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
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.
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