Trump axed a Black history exhibit. Former park rangers are teaching it anyway.

Former National Park Ranger Melissa Dalley, 49, speaks during the America 433+ teach-in at Harpers Ferry National Historic Park on June 19. KT Kanazawich for NPR

HARPERS FERRY, W. Va. — The summer of 2026 was going to be a triumphant debut for former National Park Ranger Elizabeth Kerwin.

Kerwin, who used to be the exhibit planner at West Virginia’s Harpers Ferry National Historic Park, had spent years building a wall of remembrance to highlight hundreds of enslaved people with ties to this historic site — a place best known for a violent raid that attempted to incite an uprising and end American slavery.

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