JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Pieces of history erased. That’s what national parks like Timucuan Ecological and Historical Preserve at Kingsley Plantation and Castillo de San Marcos National Monument here in Northeast Florida are facing.

History professor at Flagler College and a visiting professor at Yale University, Dr. Michael Butler said the materials on slavery in national parks are needed.

“The attacks on the history of slavery and civil rights in our nation’s museums, schools, and libraries makes me both sad and angry,” Butler said. “It’s tremendously upsetting that an honest understanding of the past when it comes to slavery, when it comes to reconstruction, when it comes to the civil rights movement is somehow being portrayed as ideological."

Back in March, President Donald Trump signed

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