The National Park Service on Thursday began reinstalling a slavery exhibit at a Philadelphia national park that was removed last month to comply with the Trump administration’s push for the agency to cast a more flattering light on U.S. history.
Senior Judge Cynthia Rufe of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania had given the administration until Friday to replace the installation at Independence National Historical Park, following her withering rebuke of the White House’s use of the National Park Service to censor historic content.
The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday granted part of the Trump administration’s appeal to stay Rufe’s preliminary injunction, meaning NPS wouldn’t have to restore the exhibit. But the appellate court affirmed part of the judge’s order that prohibited the agency from hanging alternative panels.
The Interior Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
