Harryi’s great-large-grip-shirt speaks after the National Park’s service brings the underground rail on its website
Harryet Tubman’s large-grandchildren “ruined” by National Park service The decision to alleviate his language about the underground railway on his website in February.
“It tore me when I saw that my phone is a flash game with a clamp,” Rita Daniels said NBC News.
Among the changes trained The website was a replacement of Tubman’s high image, in which there are five postage stamps that emphasize the “Black / White Cooperation” and represent the Tubman’s two races. In addition, the description of the underground railway has been revised.
The changes are followed by President Donald Trump Executive Committee, which directed to the Smithsonian Institute to eliminate the “dividing stories”. Review of National Park Service Websites. One of the leading agencies responsible for maintaining US history, which has been edited by dozens of pages since the inauguration of the trump in late January.
Among them include the agency node Tubman-someone, Daniels worked as a young girl was associated with the civil rights icon. Growing up in New York’s Ayubor, where Tubman settled after running in 1859 Slavery in Maryland, Daniels remembers school materials label Tubman as a “thief”.
“It is said that he stole slaves that there was generous things on his head,” he said.
When Daniels shared his mother, he learned that the demands were not true and their ancestors. From that moment on, Daniels relyed on inspiration to Tubman’s legacy and dedicated her life to preserve its history.
He co-authored a book about the life of Tubman and established Harriet Tubman Learning Center on the real history and influence of the figure freedom fighter to educate others. Now, in the service of the Vighting National Park, it seems to dilute his aunt, the legacy is deeply painful to Daniel.
“I was just mostly shocked and injured at the same time,” he said. “Most of my adult life, I really wanted to make sure that people know that his story is an important part of black history.”
The update on the many changes made on state websites was the pursuit of Trump administration to remove the links to diversity, equity and inclusion (dei).
“My question is as follows. Why do they want to erase our black story? ” Daniels asked. “Why are we such a threat to certain Americans? They want to remove or ignore very reputable Americans, black Americans. Why, the answer is racism. “
After the news Web site appliesThe National Park’s service issued a statement on April 7, clarifying that the page was removed from the senior “without approval” management, and that the initial version was “restored immediately.”
“This is the type of influence that Harriet Tubman had on many people, not only me,” said Daniels. “And they want to delete it. No. He is extremely important for our family and American history, just to pull aside. They can’t call what is Dey done.
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