"The National Park Service manages 433 units around the country, including many smaller parks aimed at preserving places of historical significance."
"Angela Bates spent six years trying to get the National Park Service to take over the tiny homesteader town founded by her great-grandparents in Kansas, a testament to African Americans’ attempts after the end of slavery to build a new life for themselves on the expansive Western prairies.
Now the Trump administration’s efforts to downsize the U.S. government threaten to walk back protections for the huddle of five old buildings called the Nicodemus National Historic Site. President Donald Trump’s budget plan could remove what’s become a gold standard for preservation not just for Bates’ town but for hundreds of places of historical significance across the country that are managed by NPS.
“Just to write it off because of economics, it needs to be looked at again,” said Bates, whose great-grandmother’s family was enslaved on the plantation of a former vice president before gaining freedom, moving to Kansas and helping found Nicodemus. “This is what makes this country great. … We’re committed to making sure that our country and our history here is not forgotten.”"
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