Without fanfare, the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington has featured U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in a new display about the court alongside the late justice Thurgood Marshall.

The new installation was added shortly before the museum marked its first anniversary September 24, and may or may not end a long-simmering controversy over the museum's treatment of Thomas.

Before the addition, the only reference to Thomas, the second African-American justice in history, was in a display about Anita Hill, who accused Thomas of sexual harassment during his confirmation hearing in 1991.