"The park will "honor our greatest Americans, including black icons like Booker T. Washington, Jackie Robinson, Aretha Franklin, Coretta Scott King, Muhammad Ali, and many others," the action reads."
"Trump praisedabolitionists Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass, Olympic sprinter Jesse Owens, poet Phillis Wheatley, NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson and economist Thomas Sowell."
"The president also recognized Prince Estabrook, who served in the Revolutionary War while enslaved, and Lemuel Haynes, who is widely recognizedas the first Black man in America to be ordained by a Protestant church. Trump called them "black patriots" and said "as President, I am fighting to restore the Nation that these titans helped build.""
""They needlessly divide our citizens on the basis of race, painting a toxic and distorted and disfigured vision of our history, heritage, and heroes," he said."
""Since the start of Trump's second term, we have seen a coordinated effort to erase or rewrite parts of American history, especially Black history and the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement," Martin Luther King III, son of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., told Axios last month."
A presidential proclamation establishes the National Garden of American Heroes and lists many Black icons to be honored, including Booker T. Washington, Jackie Robinson, Aretha Franklin, Coretta Scott King, Muhammad Ali, and others. The proclamation praises abolitionists Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass, Jesse Owens, Phillis Wheatley, Katherine Johnson, and Thomas Sowell. The proclamation recognizes Prince Estabrook and Lemuel Haynes, calls them "black patriots," and includes the statement "as President, I am fighting to restore the Nation that these titans helped build." The proclamation also criticizes the progressive movement and far-left politicians for dividing citizens. The administration has faced criticism for rolling back civil-rights measures and targeting DEI programs, and Martin Luther King III warned of efforts to erase or rewrite parts of Black history and the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement.
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