Jan. 23 (UPI) -- The city of Philadelphia has filed suit against the U.S. Department of the Interior and its secretary Doug Bergum for removing an outdoor exhibit on slavery in Independence National Historical Park.
The lawsuit filed Thursday also names the National Park Service and its director Jessica Bowron as defendants in the case and asks a federal judge to issue a preliminary injunction to return the displays.
The exhibit is at the President's House Site, where presidents George Washington and John Adams lived. The display memorializes nine people enslaved by Washington and shows a historical timeline of slavery.
"The interpretive displays relating to enslaved persons at President's House are an integral part of the exhibit, and removing them would be a material alteration to the exhibit," the city said in the filing.
Since President Donald Trump signed an executive order in March titled Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History, the administration has been working to remove museum exhibits and mentions of America's history of slavery.
