JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI - The National Park Service has removed brochuresfrom the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument in Mississippi calling the murderer of the civil rights leader a racist.

Mississippi Today reports the brochures were pulled from the shelves and edited to remove references to Byron De La Beckwith as a racist, as well as to eliminate references to the murdered civil rights leader Medgar Evers lying in a pool of blood after being shot. De La Beckwith, who was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, was convicted of murdering Evers in 1963.

This move is the latest in a string of removals and changes to signs and exhibits on public lands across the U.S. In recent weeks, signage referencing slavery was removed from Independence National Historical Parkin Philadelphia, and signage about climate change and Native American history was removed at multiple popular national park sites. These moves are part of the Trump Administration's "review" of signs and exhibits at national parksand national monuments that come in conflict with Trump's executive order"restoring truth and sanity to American History".

In January, the Sierra Club filed a lawsuit against the Trump Administrationfor refusing to release information related to the Administration's efforts to erase history on public lands. Information received so far from the Bureau of Reclamationand Bureau of Land Managementreveals the public clearly opposes these efforts.

In response to the news, the Sierra Club issued the following statement:

"Altering public materials about the murder of a civil rights leader during Black History Month is not simply an editorial choice, it is a failed test of our nation's character. This move by the Trump Administration is the latest in a long line of egregious moves to push a whitewashed version of history on public lands," said Gerry James, Deputy Director of the Sierra Club's Outdoors for All campaign. "America's national parks and historic sites are precious landscapes of our collective memory and classrooms for our democracy. They should honor the promise of this country without erasing the pain, courage, and struggle of the people who shaped it."

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