Medgar Evers Removed from Arlington Cemetery Website Following Trump Executive Order

The removal of the WWII veteran and civil rights leader highlights concerns over historical erasure tied to the elimination of federal DEI programs.

The U.S. Army has removed Medgar Evers, a WWII veteran and civil rights leader, from the Arlington National Cemetery website, citing President Trump's executive order to eliminate Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion (DEI) programs.
Historians and civil rights advocates criticize the move as an erasure of minority contributions to U.S. history, with Evers' military service and civil rights activism deeply intertwined.
Evers, assassinated in 1963 by a white supremacist, was buried with full military honors at Arlington and posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2024.
Other minority veterans, including Medal of Honor recipient Maj. Gen. Charles Calvin Rogers, were also removed from the website, intensifying concerns about historical revisionism.
Former Mississippi Supreme Court Justice Reuben Anderson and U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson have publicly condemned the decision, calling for the preservation of figures like Evers in public memory.