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Slavery exhibit removed by Trump administration being restored ahead of deadline
The judge barred new interpretations of the site’s history and mandated restoration of an exhibit on nine enslaved people, amid ongoing legal dispute with the Trump administration.
- On Feb. 19, 2026, National Park Service workers reinstalled a slavery exhibit at the Former President's House on Independence Mall, restoring displays removed last month.
- On Monday, Senior U.S. District Judge Cynthia Rufe granted an injunction ordering the materials restored and barring Trump officials from creating new site interpretations.
- Citing her 40-page opinion, Senior U.S. District Judge Cynthia Rufe warned that `the government does not have the power to dissemble and disassemble historical truths` while ordering the exhibit's restoration.
- Mayor Cherelle Parker visited the site Thursday morning and thanked the workers, the U.S. Attorney's Office declined to comment, and the administration argues it alone decides narratives at National Park Service properties.
- By restoring the displays, the ruling affects presentation of slavery at a major national historic site and highlights who shapes narratives about the people enslaved by George Washington at the former President's House, Independence Mall.
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Slavery exhibit returns to Philadelphia museum following judge’s orders that cited Orwell’s ‘1984’
Informational panels on slavery returned to a popular historical museum in Philadelphia on Thursday, after a federal judge evoked the dystopian world of George Orwell’s novel '1984' to order the Trump administration to bring back the long-standing exhibit earlier this week.
Slavery exhibit returns to Philadelphia's Independence Mall after Trump administration ordered its removal
Workers on Thursday began restoring an exhibit on the lives of the nine people once enslaved at the former President's House in Philadelphia amid a contentious legal fight between the city and the Trump administration.
UPDATE: Slavery exhibit being reinstalled at President's House
Update from Thursday: Workers are restoring an exhibit depicting the history of the nine people once enslaved in Philadelphia amid a legal fight between the city and the Trump Administration. A city spokesperson says Mayor Cherelle Parker visited the site…
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