The National Park Service on Wednesday released a list of more than 60 changes it made at dozens of historic sites across the country as part of President Donald Trump’s order to scrub “disparaging” content about past Americans and focus visitors instead on the natural wonders on public lands.
The changes included discarding a junior ranger book at the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Historic Monument, where the Civil Rights leader was assassinated, and removing a video at the Carter G. Woodson Home National Historic Site because it described a white mob’s racial attack on a Black neighborhood.
The agency also removed a tribal land acknowledgment on the George Washington Memorial Parkway and a panel on the National Mall in Washington about African Americans in the Civil War.
The list, submitted to Judge Angel Kelley of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, is the first public account of what the National Park Service has done to comply with Trump’s effort to recast American history as uplifting and inspiring.
