Overview
- Anonymous Park Service officials told Mississippi Today the Evers Home brochure is being revised to remove the word 'racist' describing Byron De La Beckwith and to cut graphic language about the assassination.
- The original brochure identified Beckwith as a member of the racist and segregationist White Citizens’ Council and noted his Ku Klux Klan ties, all documented in the historical record.
- Reena Evers-Everette said the family was told the brochure is under review and not final; Jezebel reported the brochures were later returned with officials saying they were outdated, and NPS has not provided a detailed public rationale.
- Civil-rights advocates, including Alan Spears, and Martin Luther King III criticized the reported changes as erasing or sanitizing established history.
- The move aligns with a March 2025 executive order and Interior guidance that have led to edits or removals at other sites, including materials on slavery and Arlington National Cemetery webpages.