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Human Rights and National Park Week

By humanrightsathome

It’s National Park Week, with free admission and special events at National Parks around the country.  

During the days following President Trump’s inauguration, we all had the chance to observe the Park Service calmly speaking truth to power, and correcting the historic record on the size of the inauguration crowd on the Washington Mall.  More recently, millionaire Trump made a great show of donating $78,000 to the National Park  Service while standing behind a proposed budget that would strip $2 billion from the Department of the Interior that administers the NPS.  

This weekend (or sooner!), take the opportunity to check out some of the park sites that commemorate people and events that are important to US human rights history.  Vote with your feet to show that these sites are important not only for our past, but for our future as well.  Here’s a sampling:

Stonewall National Monument, New York

Val-Kill, Eleanor Roosevelt’s retreat on the Hudson, Hyde Park, NY

Women’s Rights National Historical Park,  Seneca Falls, NY

Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, Washington, D.C.

Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument, Birmingham, AL

Trail of Tears, National Historic Trail, AL, AR, GA, IL, KY, MO, NC, OK, TN