A federal appeals court has sided with the Trump administration in the decision to remove display panels about slave history at the President’s House site in Philadelphia.
Activists accused the administration of trying to white out the troubling slave history of the site where Presidents George Washington and John Adams once lived.
‘The decision to do this appears to be made because the President’s House Site memorialized the nine enslaved individuals that were held there against their will by President Washington.’
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A lower court had ordered the National Park Service to restore the panels, but a 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals panel found unanimously on Thursday that the order should be overturned.
The appeals court said the lower court had misinterpreted the contract between the NPS and the
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