Harriet Tubman’s household is fired up after the Nationwide Park Service quietly yanked her picture and quote from the Underground Railroad net 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 … notably serving to escaped slaves discover their technique to freedom, in addition to serving to the Union in the course of the Civil Struggle. The edited web page additionally eliminated references to the historical past of enslavement within the U.S., apart from a single caption … earlier than public outcry prompted their restoration.

Rita’s asking the large query — why is Black historical past such a menace to sure individuals? And why are they making an attempt 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.

She provides that racism is alive and effectively, pointing to the January sixth, 2021 rebel for instance of lively teams … however believes there is a new wave of allies — “new abolitionists” — prepared to face up and combat again.

The Park Service ended up restoring Tubman’s picture and different historic references after main backlash — they’d 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 individuals escape Southern slave-holding states. The Washington Submit was the primary to report it over the weekend.

However for the household, the harm was already carried out. Rita made it crystal clear — “Go away my nice auntie alone!”