Continuing in the Trump administration’s attempts to whitewash U.S. history, the National Park Service is reportedly in the process of removing the word “racist” in describing the murderer of civil rights leader Medgar Evers from brochures at the national monument honoring Evers.
From Mississippi Today:
Edits to the brochure have removed that reference to Byron De La Beckwith, according to Park Service officials, who asked not to be named for fear of retribution. Other edits include eliminating the reference to Medgar Evers lying in a pool of blood after being shot.
In 1963, Beckwith shot the civil rights leader in the back on the driveway of the Evers family home.
In the years that followed, Beckwith made no secret of his racism. In a 1990 interview, he called the white Citizens’ Council, created to preserve Jim Crow ways, “the first ray of light Dixie had seen since we fought through Reconstruction and captured the right to vote, the right of white people to run the South.”
He pointed to his Bible and said, “N—-s are beasts. It says so in here in the book of Adam.”
This is all part of Donald Trump’s March 2025 executive order, “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” which accused previous administrations of perpetuating “a false reconstruction of American history.”
Over the past year, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has ordered changes to monuments and memorials include the removal of “descriptions, depictions, or other content that inappropriately disparage Americans…and instead focus on the greatness of the achievements and progress of the American people.”
In other words, they’d like to just erase all that nasty slavery that happened here.
Read more here.
In related news, just this week the Park Service ordered the removal of tribal history exhibits at Montana’s Little Bighorn National Monument, site of Custer’s Last Stand.
(h/t JoeMyGod)
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