The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration says it 'made a mistake' by blurring the word 'Trump' as well as 'words that referenced parts of a woman's body' in a photo showing protest signs from the 2017 Women’s March.
, held a day after Trump's inauguration, drew hundreds of thousands of protesters in Washington, D.C., and an estimated 3 million in cities across the country and around the world.
The display attempts to show the commonality between the women’s rights demonstrations, which both took place on Pennsylvania Avenue in the nation's capital, even though they occurred 100 years apart. Close ups of the altered sign in the photograph from Women's March in 2017 on display at the National Archives Research Center, left, the original by Getty photographer Mario Tama.Kleiman said the Archives also blurred words"that could be perceived by some museum visitors as inappropriate, so as not to distract from the graphic's intended purpose."
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