An article about the life of Jackie Robinson was quietly restored on the Defense Department website Wednesday afternoon after it was taken down as part of a purge of content linked to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).
The webpage details the legendary baseball player’s life before breaking the color barrier in Major League Baseball in 1947, as well as his service in the Army during World War II when he was drafted to a segregated unit and later commissioned a second lieutenant.
But on Wednesday morning, the page reportedly redirected to a URL that included “DEI” and an error message stating “Page Not Found.” The page has since been restored, along with other profiles on Native American code talkers and on Ira Hayes—one of the Marines who raised the American flag at Iwo Jima in 1945.
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