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Artifacts Removed from the ‘Blacksonian’ Amid Trump Attacks on DEI

The museum has denied claims the artifacts’ removal is related to Trump.

A month after an executive order from President Donald Trump declared that museums in Washington D.C. should not be places where visitors are “subjected to ideological indoctrination or divisive narratives that distort our shared history,” at least 32 artifacts have been removed from the National Museum of African American History and Culture. According to an NBC report, both the White House and the museum have said that the removals are not related to the administration’s attacks on diversity, equality and inclusion, which led to museum director Kevin Young stepping down last month. Artifacts no longer on display in the museum include Harriet Tubman’s personal hymn book and a first edition of Frederick Douglass’ Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, published in 1845.