Harriet Tubman Relative Responds to Gov’t Pulling Pic, Facts From Underground Railroad Page

Harriet Tubman’s household is fired up after the Nationwide Park Service quietly yanked her picture and quote from the Underground Railroad web page, amongst different edits… calling it a complete slap within the face to Black historical past, which they stress is American historical past — interval.

Tubman’s relative Rita Daniels — creator, speaker, and founding father of the Harriet Tubman Studying Heart — tells TMZ she was shocked by the transfer, which got here amid President Trump’s anti-DEI push, mentioning Tubman performed a key position in shaping U.S. historical past … significantly serving to escaped slaves discover their strategy to freedom, in addition to serving to the Union through the Civil Conflict. The edited web page additionally eliminated references to the historical past of enslavement within the U.S., except for a single caption … earlier than public outcry prompted their restoration.

Rita’s asking the massive query — why is Black historical past such a risk to sure folks? And why are they attempting to erase Black historical past from America’s story? She notes first the administration eliminated Dept. of Protection references to Jackie Robinson, after which the Tuskegee Airmen.

The Park Service ended up restoring Tubman’s picture and different historic references after main backlash — that they had quietly swapped out her pic again in February for small commemorative stamps that includes 5 abolitionists, together with Tubman herself, and eliminated references to the historic system of serving to enslaved folks escape Southern slave-holding states. The Washington Post was the primary to report it over the weekend.

However for the household, the harm was already achieved. Rita made it crystal clear — “Depart my nice auntie alone!”