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, so Trump later appointed him to be Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division in January 2025.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=3857230367939923
2021 September
2021-09-17 During an interview on Jack Murphy Live, JD Vance claimed COVID masking traumatized children, bashed teachers for educating about slavery, attacked CRT, claimed some sort of “wokeism” assimilation was in progress, and praised extremist views of 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. That included photos of the Enola Gay Boeing B-29 because it had the word ‘gay’ in it.
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 executive order Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History to whitewash and sanitize historical facts. The EO specifically targets the “Shape of Power” exhibit, “The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture,” an exhibit representing that “[s]ocieties including the United States have used race to establish and maintain systems of power, privilege, and disenfranchisement.” The exhibit further claims that “sculpture has been a powerful tool in promoting scientific racism” and promotes the view that race is not a biological reality but a social construct, stating “Race is a human invention.”
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 sent a letter to Harvard demanding they conduct a federal government-approved audit of its student and faculty to determine “viewpoint diversity” among other requests. Harvard refused, calling the demands unconstitutional.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/us/politics/harvard-university-trump.html
2025-04-29 After Harvard refused to let the federal government do their unconstitutional audit of “viewpoint diversity”, The Department of Education launched an investigation into the Harvard Law Review and accused them of discrimination against white males.
2025 June
2025-06-01 Pete Hegseth renamed several U.S. Naval Ships that were named after prominent women, civil rights leaders, or any other American character he feels does not meet criteria for his “warrior ethos”
2025-06-10 National parks were instructed to post QR codes allowing visitors to report exhibits deemed “too woke,” including content about climate change, pollution, slavery, or Native American history.
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”. In his post, Trump 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 Department of Education defunded minority-serving institutions such as 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 publicly disclosing curriculum revisions that would remove or limit instruction on certain scientific concepts and anti-slavery activism, including the 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 staff to remove a slavery exhibit from a park in Philadelphia in alignment with Trump’s Executive order to “restore truth and sanity to American history”.
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.