Mobile’s Azalea Trail Maids, long a staple of cultural events in the city and beyond, will not participate in the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump.

The trail maids announced earlier this month that they had been invited to participate in the inauguration festivities. However, following the decision to move the celebration indoors due to freezing weather, the trail maids said they were asked not to participate, according to a Facebook post announcing the cancellation.

“While the Maids will not be part of the parade this year, we want to express our sincere appreciation for their continued dedication to representing our city with grace and pride,” the trail maids announced on Facebook. “We look forward to finding other opportunities to honor and celebrate their important role in our community.”

Most groups were asked not to participate, according to the post, due to space constraints. The Albertville High School Band, which had also been slated to perform in the inauguration parade, was also asked not to participate.

The 350-member Aggie Band had been personally recommended by Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey to perform at the inauguration.

The trail maids have participated in an inauguration before. In 2009, they were present at President Barack Obama’s first inauguration, though at the time their appearance was criticized by then-NAACP president Edward Vaughn. (Vaughn later apologized for his remarks.)

And the maids met Trump in 2016 when he visited Mobile as part of a “Thank You Tour” following his electoral victory that year. The trail maids were photographed greeting Trump, and their dresses were widely criticized.

Every year, 50 high school senior girls from Mobile County participate in the Azalea Trail Maids program and represent the city as ambassadors. Each girl wears a colorful, poufy dress—meant to represent the colors of azaleas in Mobile.

But the dresses are evocative of the antebellum period in the United States, when slavery was still practiced in much of the south. Their appearance at events has been criticized in the past as harkening back to a racist past.