President Donald Trump’s administration won’t allow a Ku Klux Klan member convicted of murdering a civil rights leader to be labeled a racist.
To kick off Black History Month, the Trump administration has directed the National Park Service to scrub any mention of racism from the brochures and a plaque outside the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument in Jackson, Mississippi, including removing language labeling Medgar Evers’ killer as a racist, Mississippi Today reported.
Assassin Byron De La Beckwith, a Ku Klux Klan member, waited in the bushes outside Evers’ home on June 12, 1963, until the civil rights leader returned from an NAACP meeting, then shot him in the back in his driveway. Evers died lying in a pool of his own blood—a grisly scene federal officials have also removed references to.
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