Harriet Tubman web page targeted due to the anti-dei efforts led by Trump | Trump Administration

The National Park Service has removed a quote and image of us abolitionist Harriet Tubman from a web page on the underground railway network that helped people slave to escape captivity – and instead the page now underlines what describes as “black/black/black cooperation” as a presidential of Donald Trump administration He continues his efforts to disinfect the history of the country.

PreviouslyThe page in question led with a quote From Tubman, who was the most famous agent of the underground railway, together with a prominent image. However, the magazine page It no longer includes these elements and several references to the slave people and the Slave Act fugitive of 1850 that Tubman and the challenged underground railway have been removed.

The magazine web page now starts with images of stamps depicting five black and white abolitionists, also TubmanWith the text overlaps with the images that reads: “Black/black cooperation”.

In the previous version of the page, the first sentences described the underground railway as “the resistance to slavery through escape and flight, until the end of the civil war”, adding that “refers to the efforts of the African Americans slavered to obtain their freedom by escaping slavery”.

But now, the first paragraph no longer mentions slavery – which the United States abolished in 1865 – and instead describes the underground railway as “one of the most significant expressions of the American civil rights movement”.

And the second paragraph states that the railway “filled the divisions of race, religion, sectional differences and nationality” and “have been combined with the American ideals of freedom and freedom expressed in the declaration of independence and the establishment to the extraordinary actions of ordinary men and women who work in the common purpose of freeing a people”.

These changes have been reported for the first Washington Post Sunday.

Since it came into office in January, the Trump Administration He has actively worked to restore the initiatives and efforts he sees as relating to diversity, equity and inclusion – throughout the federal government.

In February, the Pentagon sent a reminder Order an “digital content update” on all public platforms of the Defense Department. It has led to the removal of any mention that “promotes diversity, equity and inclusion” from the posts on the department’s website, in the photos, in news articles and videos.

Second CnnPentagon officials were asked to look for keywords such as “racism”, “ethnia”, “lgbtq”, “history” and “first” when they were looking for articles and photos to be removed from the government -owned sites.

And in recent weeks, second The Associated PressThousands of pages in honor of the contributions of women and minority groups have been removed in an attempt to eliminate the material that the Administration considers the promotion of Dei.

He said two employees of the National Park Service The Washington Post That at the interior department, which supervises the park service, the appointed politicians have directed high career officials to identify web pages that may have to be changed.

In February, the National Park Service References removed to transgender people From his web page of the National Monument of Stonewall.

In mid -March, the Department of Defense made news after it removed a web page Onopendo a army general who served in the Vietnam War and received the highest military decoration of the country – and the letters “of” were added to the address of the site.

The removal triggered a repercussions and the page was restored.

A spokesman for the Department of Defense said that the page was eliminated by mistake, but defended the efforts of the efforts of the administrations to remove the contents that promote the gods.

“I think the president and the secretary were very clear about this – that anyone who says in the Department of Defense that diversity is our strength, is frankly, incorrect,” said the spokesman.

THE Washington Post has reported several further recent changes that has identified the web pages owned by the government, including a web page that examined Benjamin Franklin’s relationship with slavery it was taken offline And now displays the message: “This page is currently being developed. Please cheer on later.”

Also, a section In The Minute Man National Historical Park page on the unrecognized contribution of black soldiers in the revolutionary war has been eliminated, according to what reported by the post.

When asked about the changes to the website, a spokesman for the park service did not face any specific modification but told the Washington Post That the agency has “been entrusted to preserve local history, celebrate the local heritage, safeguard special places and share stories of American experiences”.

“We take this role seriously and we can indicate many examples of how we tell faded and difficult stories about American history,” he added.

At the end of March, Trump signed an executive order aimed at the Smithsonian Institution, By affirming the intention of his administration to eliminate what they consider “improper, divisive or anti-American ideology” with the important cultural and educational institution, which holds the largest set of museums and research entities in the world.

The Directive turned on the recourse, with the critics who accused the administration of the attempt to erase diversity from the history of the United States.