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		<title>National Park Service restores Harriet Tubman feature on webpage after criticism over removal</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[A National Park Service webpage about the Underground Railroad has been restored to its original state months after it was changed to remove abolitionist leader Harriet Tubman from the top of the page. The &#8220;What is the Underground Railroad?&#8221; page featured a photo of and quote from Tubman as leading elements on the page, followed [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC ">A National Park Service webpage about the Underground Railroad has been restored to its original state months after it was changed to remove abolitionist leader Harriet Tubman from the top of the page.</p>
<p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy ">The &#8220;<a class="zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE " data-testid="prism-linkbase" href="https://www.nps.gov/subjects/undergroundrailroad/what-is-the-underground-railroad.htm" target="_blank">What is the Underground Railroad?</a>&#8221; page featured a photo of and quote from Tubman as leading elements on the page, followed by text explaining the historical significance of the Underground Railroad in African American history. The page was altered to remove Tubman in early February, per data from the Wayback Machine, replacing the image with a collage of Postal Service Underground Railroad commemorative stamps highlighting &#8220;Black/White Cooperation.&#8221;</p>
<p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy ">The change also removed Tubman&#8217;s quote and altered the text to market the Underground Railroad as a bridge for &#8220;the divides of race, religion, sectional differences, and nationality&#8221; rather than &#8220;resistance to enslavement through escape and flight.&#8221;</p>
<p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy ">Mentions of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 were also deleted before the restoration, along with historical cards of enslaved peoples fighting to reach freedom and a mural of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, the first Black regiment made up of those raised in the North. All of these elements have since been added back in their original states.</p>
<p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy ">&#8220;The removal of Harriet Tubman&#8217;s image and quote from the National Park Service&#8217;s &#8216;Underground Railroad&#8217; webpage is concerning,&#8221; civil rights attorney Ben Crump <a class="zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE " data-testid="prism-linkbase" href="https://x.com/AttorneyCrump/status/1909255535989346596" target="_blank">posted on X</a> while Tubman was still scrubbed from the page. &#8220;Tubman&#8217;s legacy and the resistance of enslaved people must never be diminished. We must stand in the truth of our history!&#8221;</p>
<p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy ">Bernice King, the daughter of Martin Luther King Jr., argued the removal was &#8220;an attack on truth, an attempt to erase history that would help us improve society today, a refusal to be uncomfortable and engaged in changing harmful policies and practices.&#8221;</p>
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<p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy ">&#8220;Changes to the Underground Railroad page on the National Park Service&#8217;s website were made without approval from NPS leadership nor Department leadership. The webpage was immediately restored to its original content,&#8221; the NPS said in a statement to ABC News.</p>
<p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy ">A <a class="zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE " data-testid="prism-linkbase" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2025/04/06/national-park-service-underground-railroad-history-slavery/" target="_blank">Washington Post investigation</a> published on Friday pointed out these changes and others from the NPS. Its analysis of thousands of NPS webpages found several changes in language to rebrand racially charged moments in American history or remove references to slavery entirely.</p>
<p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy ">A page on Benjamin Franklin&#8217;s views on slavery was taken down, and some mentions of prominent figures such as Thomas Stone owning enslaved people were omitted.</p>
<p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy ">This comes amid a larger push against <a class="zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE " data-testid="prism-linkbase" href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/dei-programs/story?id=97004455" target="_blank">diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives</a> from the Trump administration and an effort to purge DEI from government webpages.</p>
<p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy ">Last month, the Department of Defense said it &#8220;mistakenly removed&#8221; <a class="zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE " data-testid="prism-linkbase" href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/dod-mistakenly-removed-jackie-robinson-content-website-amid/story?id=119955477" target="_blank">Jackie Robinson&#8217;s Army service</a> as well as other content, including a page that honored the 60th anniversary of U.S. troops, in its effort to remove DEI from its sites.</p>
<p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy ">Actress Viola Davis, who is set to play Tubman in an untitled HBO biopic, took to <a class="zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE " data-testid="prism-linkbase" href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DIJlxCPRS4g/" target="_blank">Instagram</a> on Monday to share comment on the situation, saying the edits were &#8220;downplaying Harriet Tubman and slavery.&#8221;</p>
<p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN ">&#8220;Really?!! Harriet Tubman?!!&#8221; she wrote in the caption. &#8220;Elevating this icon of American History is being diminished?!!! Erased?! Man&#8230;..Lord&#8230;.give us STRENGTH!!!!&#8221;</p>
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