Erase Reframe Whitewash
1966
1966-01-01 Jerry Falwell founded the whites-only Lynchburg Christian Academy to circumvent the 1954 ruling to ban segregation. He wrote in his book ‘America Can Be Saved’, “I hope I live to see the day when, as in the early days of our country, we won’t have any public schools. The churches will have taken them over again and Christians will be running them”. In 1977 courts ruled that segregated private religious schools could not qualify as charitable organizations or retain tax exempt status.
https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/falwell-jerry-1933-2007/
https://www.ocala.com/story/news/2007/05/20/a-sad-legacy-left-behind/31202665007
2018
2018-03-08 A Floridian middle-school social studies teacher was pulled after the school learned she had a white supremacist podcast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ja8BFVVTHI
https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-43287546
2021 June
2021-06-01 Texas House Bill 3979 restricts race, slavery and current event curriculum in public schools by removing material pertaining to Native American history, Cesar Chavez, Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglas and Martin Luther King Jr.
https://legiscan.com/TX/text/HB3979/id/2339637
https://www.idra.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/What-does-HB-3979-do-IDRA-reference.pdf
2021 July
2021-07-21 Fox News contributor Leo Terrell attacked Critical Race Theory. Trump later appointed him to be Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=3857230367939923
2021 September
2021-09-17 During an interview on Jack Murphy Live, JD Vance claimed that COVID masking traumatized children, chastised teachers for teaching about slavery, attacked CRT, claimed “wokeism” assimilation, and praised Curtis Yarvin.
2025 January
2025-01-26 The United States Air Force was forced to remove training courses referencing the Tuskegee Airmen or the Women Air Force Service Pilots (WACS) because they are “DEI”.
https://apnews.com/article/air-force-dei-tuskegee-women-wwii-pilots-ecdeac68dc7696535d093c7690ab73bc
2025-01-29 Trump issued Executive Order Ending Racial Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling.
2025 March
2025-03-07 The Trump administration purged 26,000 military photos of anything referencing women or minorities including photos of the Enola Gay.
2025-03-15 The Trump administration stripped away women’s history pages from the Arlington website.
https://www.arlingtoncemetery.mil/Media/News/Post/14651/Website-Content-Update
FOR WOMEN VETERANS https://foundationforwomenwarriors.org/
2025-03-27 Trump signed EO Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History which is designed to whitewash and sanitize history.
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/02/nx-s1-5345933/smithsonian-executive-order-the-shape-of-power
https://www.cnn.com/politics/trump-smithsonian-art-shape-of-power
2025 April
2025-04-11 The Trump administration demanded that Harvard conduct a federal government-approved audit of its student and faculty to determine “viewpoint diversity”. When Harvard refused, the DEO launched an investigation and accused them of discrimination against white males.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/us/politics/harvard-university-trump.html
2025 June
2025-06-01 Pete Hegseth renamed several U.S. Naval Ships that were named after prominent women or civil rights leaders because they did not meet his criteria for a “warrior ethos”
2025-06-10 National parks were instructed to post QR codes so visitors could report exhibits with content about slavery, Native American history, pollution or climate change.
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/10/nx-s1-5429773/national-park-service-signs
https://www.npca.org/articles/9287-make-them-hear-you
2025 August
2025-08-19 Trump posted, “Smithsonian is OUT OF CONTROL, where everything discussed is how horrible our Country is, how bad Slavery was”. Then he instructed his attorneys to “go through the Museums, and start the exact same process that has been done with Colleges and Universities”.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115056914674717313
2025 September
2025-09-10 The DOE defunded Strengthening Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian-Serving Institutions, Strengthening Predominantly Black Institutions, Strengthening Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions, Strengthening Native American Serving Nontribal Institutions, Minority Science and Engineering Improvement, Developing Hispanic Service Institutions, and Promoting Postbaccalaureate Opportunities for Hispanic Americans.
2025-09-17 The Trump administration ordered the National Park Service to remove or censor exhibits at Harpers Ferry West Virginia, including the Civil War Museum and John Brown’s Fort (a key site in an 1859 abolitionist raid).
2025 December
2025-12-03 A Colorado Springs teacher was indefinitely suspended after she disclosed upcoming revisions to limit teaching about anti-slavery activism or contributions of Frederick Douglass.
https://www.fox21news.com/news/d11-fifth-grade-teacher-could-lose-her-job/
2026 January
2026-01-08 The Smithsonian was told to remove the word “unjust” from a display about Japanese internment camps because it made the display look “too partisan”.
A USC PDF https://race.usc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/2025-Practice-Brief-Final.pdf
2026-01-23 The Trump administration ordered the National Park Service to remove a slavery exhibit from a park in Philadelphia.
2026 February
2026-02-05 The Trump Administration sanitized exhibits at Little Bighorn National Monument. The Northern Cheyenne Tribal Council unanimously voted 11-0 against the changes.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/northern-cheyenne-push-back-against-175232834.html
2026-02-17 A judge ordered the Trump administration to reinstate a slavery exhibit at the Presidential House in Philadelphia, citing George Orwell’s 1984, comparing the Trump administration to the book’s totalitarian regime which revised historical records to align with its own narratives.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/16/politics/philadelphia-slavery-exhibits-judge-orders-return-orwell
2026 June
2026-06-16 Trump administration moved two high-profile functions out of the Department of Education: Civil Rights Education will now be under the Department of Justice, and Special Education will now be under the Department of Health and Human Services.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKiK3vtxmtY&list=WL&index=4
2026 July
2026-07-21 The GOP pressed the Smithsonian history director over what they called “woke ideology” in displays.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFLy0qqTnBI&list=WL&index=2
https://www.npr.org/2026/07/21/nx-s1-5902101/smithsonian-house-hearing
https://www.wafb.com/2026/07/21/republicans-cry-woke-smithsonian/
2026-07-24 Trump ordered installation of signs outside the Smithsonian warning visitors that exhibits may be inaccurate. The Executive Order reads in part, “Because the museum has failed to appropriately honor the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence during this 250th anniversary year of the founding of our country, the secretary of the interior…shall install temporary exhibits or signage of NPS-maintained sidewalks, walkways, and land used by the public that corrects inaccurate information presented in the museum”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxNVdOaY7G4&list=WL&index=6