by Jerry MitchellFebruary 5, 2026The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument. Among the anticipated changes? No longer calling his murderer a “racist.”Edits to the brochure have removed that reference to Byron De La Beckwith, according to Park Service officials, who asked not to be named for fear of retribution. Other edits include eliminating the reference to Medgar Evers lying in a pool of blood after being shot.Reena Evers-Everette, executive director of the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Institute and daughter of the couple, said the family has been told the matter is under review, “but the final product has not been put out yet.”
Gone were trans people from Stonewall, slavery from Mount Vernon, and removed from the people… history being hidden or de-emphasized:
- CDC and HHS LGBTQ+ health resources – removed from public websites
- Department of Defense pages on Tuskegee Airmen – temporarily removed or edited
- National Park Service materials – systemic racism and Black contributions minimized
- Smithsonian exhibits – reviewed/edited for “divisive” content (slavery, civil rights)
- Federal DEI webpages – content about underrepresented groups deleted or reduced
- WhiteHouse.gov pages – LGBTQ+ rights and diversity content removed or rewritten
- Federal flag policies, monument signage, award recognitions – minority representation reduced
And the list keeps growing!
In another article Mississippi Today reported that the park service caved it and...
Hours after Mississippi Today reported Thursday that the National Park Service had removed brochures to the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument that identified his murderer as a racist, the Park Service returned the brochures to the home.On Thursday, Park Service officials told Mississippi Today that the reason they removed the brochures was they were “outdated.”The Park Service had pulled the brochures in anticipation of replacing them with a new version, which would remove the word “racist” to describe the killer, Byron De La Beckwith, according to Park Service officials, who asked not to be named for fear of retribution. Other edits include eliminating the reference to Medgar Evers lying in a pool of blood after being shot.Medgar Evers’ niece, Hinds County Supervisor Wanda Evers, said, “You can take away the brochures, but the one thing you can’t take away is history.”
I am reminded of the quote from 1984:
“Who controls the past controls the future.Who controls the present controls the past."
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