Harriet Tubman reference removed from National Parks' Underground Railroad web page

The National Parks Service (NPS) has removed a reference to abolitionist Harriet Tubman from its webpage dedicated to the Underground Railroad.

For years, the Parks’ page on the Underground Railroad featured a prominent photo of Tubman. 

“The Underground Railroad — the resistance to enslavement through escape and flight, through the end of the Civil War — refers to the efforts of enslaved African Americans to gain their freedom by escaping bondage,” the page initially read.