Photo: Metropolitan Museum of Art

President Donald Trump has reportedly ordered his administration to remove photography and signage related to slavery and racial injustice from national parks across the nation, per The Washington Post .

The effort follows Trump’s March executive order, titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” which instructs the Interior Department to eliminate content that reflects a “corrosive ideology” or that “disparages historic Americans.”

One image flagged for removal is “The Scourged Back,” a 1863 photograph of a formerly enslaved man named Gordon , showing deep scars from repeated whippings. According to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the image is “perhaps the most famous of all known Civil War–era portraits of slaves.”

In a statement, Nation

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