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Harriet Tubman Erased From US Parks Web site With out Company’s Permission
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Harriet Tubman Erased From US Parks Web site With out Company’s Permission

Last updated: April 9, 2025 1:41 am
Editorial Board Published April 9, 2025
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Harriet Tubman photographed by H. Seymour Squyer c. 1885. (picture by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Photographs)

Adjustments to a Nationwide Park Service (NPS) web site that eliminated any point out of Harriet Tubman from a textual content concerning the Underground Railroad have been “made without approval from NPS leadership,” a spokesperson stated in an announcement to Hyperallergic. The NPS has restored its authentic textual content after outcry in gentle of a Washington Submit report figuring out the altered webpage earlier this week.

Earlier than the textual content was restored yesterday, April 7, the webpage titled “What is the Underground Railroad?” featured a whittled-down model of its 2022 textual content that purged Tubman’s identify and involvement virtually fully. Her full-body portrait and an introductory quote about steering the Underground Railroad have been changed with a small cropped headshot, amongst these of different abolitionists who participated within the freedom pipeline, every introduced as makeshift postage stamps with the phrases “Black/White Cooperation.”

Screenshot 2025 04 08 at 12.31.00%E2%80%AFPMA screenshot of the edited web site earlier than it was restored. Tubman’s full-body portrait was changed with a collection of headshots introduced as postage stamps with the phrases “Black/White Cooperation.” (screenshot by way of Wayback Machine)

The edited textual content was sparse and imprecise, omitting concrete particulars on the motion’s lead-up and inception, the variety of freed individuals, or a listing of particular places included within the liberation community. In contrast to the unique and since-restored textual content, which facilities “the efforts of enslaved African Americans to gain their freedom by escaping bondage,” the primary two strains of the edited web site hailed the Underground Railroad as “one of the most significant expressions of the American civil rights movement,” and emblematic of “the American ideals of liberty and freedom expressed in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.” 

The edited textual content additionally acknowledged that the Underground Railroad “bridged the divides of race, religion, sectional differences, and nationality,” evoking Trump’s efforts to dismantle important race concept and downplay the oppression and subjugation of Black Individuals in america.

NPS has not but responded to Hyperallergic‘s inquiry about who was responsible for the edit.

Per the website, the edits were made on March 4 of this year, nearly one month after the NPS removed any mention of the word “transgender” from all of its webpages — including a page devoted to the Stonewall Monument in Manhattan — in line with Trump’s anti-trans mandates.

Since January, Trump has set goal on federal establishments and landmarks which have included Range, Fairness, and Inclusion initiatives of their engagement with the general public or just introduced a important view of American historical past.

Most lately, his March 27 govt order focused the what Trump referred to as “race-centered ideology” and inclusive views of gender on the Smithsonian Establishment. The order instantly cited a historic Philadelphia landmark managed by the NPS that collaborated with a human rights nonprofit in February 2023 to develop a coaching session for creating extra inclusive academic guided excursions on the American Revolution. The collaboration was lambasted by the conservative media outlet Nationwide Overview final fall.

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