After backlash, National Park Service Restores Underground Railroad Page Featuring Harriet Tubman

American abolitionist leader Harriet Tubman. (Photo: MPI/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

After a lot of online backlash the National Park Service returned an image of Harriet Tubman and quote from her to a webpage about the Underground Railroad. The page was altered to remove Tubman in early February, according to data from the Wayback Machine. 

The alteration replaced her image with a collage of Postal Service Underground Railroad commemorative stamps highlighting "Black/White Cooperation.” The change also altered the text to market the Underground Railroad as a bridge for "the divides of race, religion, sectional differences, and nationality" rather than "resistance to enslavement through escape and flight."

The Washington Post first reported on the change Sunday, which prompted backlash from historians and educators. The agency said the reduced mention of Tubman had been made without approval by top leadership.

"Changes to the Underground Railroad page on the National Park Service's website were made without approval from NPS leadership nor Department leadership. The webpage was immediately restored to its original content," the NPS said in a Tuesday statement to ABC News.