NPS restores Harriet Tubman feature on webpage
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“Changes to the Underground Railroad page on the National Park Service’s website were made without approval from NPS leadership nor Department leadership,” NPS spokeswoman Rachel Pawlitz said late Mon...
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The National Park Service rewrote — then restored — the Underground Railroad story and reposted a deleted photo of abolitionist Harriet Tubman.
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The modified National Park Service site now showcases stamps of Tubman and civil rights leaders while removing explicit references to slavery.
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The latest casualty, anti-slavery icon Harriet Tubman, had her image and biography taken down from the U.S. Park Service website where she had proclaimed, “I was conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can’t say—I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.”
Edits to the Harriet Tubman and Underground Railroad page by National Park Service removed references to slavery.
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