MLK III accuses National Park Service of ‘sanitizing’ history; The Hill, February 6, 2026

SOPHIE BRAMS , The Hill; MLK III accuses National Park Service of ‘sanitizing’ history

 "Martin Luther King III, the son of civil rights advocate the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., accused the National Park Service on Thursday of “sanitizing history” amid reported changes at a Mississippi house museum commemorating civil rights activist Medgar Evers.

Evers, the Magnolia State’s first NAACP field secretary, was assassinated at the age of 37 in the driveway of his home in Jackson, Miss., by white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith on June 12, 1963.

Beckwith was a member of the Ku Klux Klan and the White Citizens’ Council, the latter of which was referenced as a “racist and segregationist” group in original visitors’ brochures at the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument.

Mississippi Today reported Thursday that the National Park Service (NPS) removed those brochures from the museum and planned to edit them to no longer call Evers’s killer “a racist,” citing NPS officials who did not want to be named. Edits also reportedly included eliminating a reference to the late activist lying in a pool of blood after he was shot.

The brochures were returned hours later, with officials citing “outdated” information as the reason for their removal, according to the outlet. But news of the changes still caught the attention of civil rights advocates and congressional lawmakers."