Here's the list of books the Naval Academy removed from its library during DEI purge

The U.S. Naval Academy successful Annapolis, Maryland, has purged hundreds of books from its room — including "How to beryllium Anti-Racist" by Ibram X. Kendi — arsenic portion of a propulsion to destruct diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI)-related content.

The Naval Academy weeded retired these books connected March 31, successful keeping with instructions from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, pursuing enforcement orders from President Donald Trump.

The Naval Academy besides threw retired different publication Kendi authored, "Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas successful America," arsenic good arsenic "Our Time is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America," by erstwhile Georgia Rep. Stacey Abrams. 

Kendi, the erstwhile founding manager of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research, attracted nationalist attraction successful 2020 for his books pursuing the 2020 decease of George Floyd successful Minneapolis by constabulary officers. 

NAVAL ACADEMY TOSSES 400 BOOKS FROM LIBRARY FOLLOWING TRUMP DEI EXPULSION ORDERS

Dr. Ibram X. Kendi speaks onstage during Netflix's "Stamped From The Beginning" satellite premiere during the Toronto International Film Festival astatine TIFF Bell Lightbox connected Sept. 9, 2023 successful Toronto. (Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images for Netflix)

Kendi joined Boston University that twelvemonth but announced successful January that helium would caput to Howard University to proceed his probe instead. Meanwhile, Boston University is poised to unopen down its probe halfway successful June erstwhile contracts expire. 

The Naval Academy besides purged "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings" by American writer and writer Maya Angelou, an autobiography detailing Angelou’s puerility and beingness during the Jim Crow era.

Other books booted by the Naval Academy are "Women with Mustaches and Men Without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity" by Afsanah Najmabodi; "Critical Race Theory and Education: A Marxist Response" by Mike Cole; "Men successful Wonderland: The Lost Girlhood of the Victorian Gentleman" by Catherine Robson; and "Bodies successful Doubt: An American History of Intersex" by Elizabeth Reis. 

Although Trump’s January enforcement orders banned DEI contented successful K–12 schools receiving national funds, subject work academies were exempt since they are not classified arsenic K–12 institutions.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced successful January that the Pentagon would comply with each orders to destruct diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives from the Department of Defense. (Reuters/Yves Herman)

However, Hegseth’s bureau instructed the work academy to destruct the materials up of a sojourn to the instauration connected April 1, The Associated Press reported. It is unclear if Hegseth issued the directive himself oregon if it came from a staffer.

The Navy confirmed to Fox News Digital that astir 400 books were ditched arsenic portion of the effort. 

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"We tin corroborate the U.S. Naval Academy has removed astir 400 books from their Nimitz Library postulation successful bid to guarantee compliance with each directives outlined successful enforcement orders issued by the president," a Navy spokesperson told Fox News Digital Wednesday. "Nimitz Library houses astir 590,000 people books, 322 databases, and implicit 5,000 people journals and magazines to enactment the world inquiries and intelligence improvement of Midshipmen."

The U.S. Naval Academy trains undergraduate midshipmen to prosecute careers arsenic officers successful the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps.

Here is the afloat database of books the Naval Academy pitched retired during the purge: 

The Associated Press and Fox News’ Rachel del Guidice contributed to this report.