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Rosa Parks and Helen Keller statues closer to reality at Alabama Capitol
The Montgomery Advertiser via Yahoo News· 9 months agoThe Alabama Women’s Tribute Statute Commission expects to finalize a contract by mid-September to...
Statue of trailblazing educator and civil rights activist Bethune unveiled in U.S. Capitol
Daytona Beach News-Journal via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWASHINGTON, D.C. — On a July day in 1875, Mary McLeod Bethune came into the world in a small log...
Confederate icon’s descendant advocates for removing ancestor’s statue from U.S. Capitol
Biloxi Sun Herald via Yahoo News· 2 months agoThe great-great-great grandson of Confederate icon J.Z. George wants to see his ancestor’s statue...
Rev. Billy Graham honored with statue unveiled at US Capitol: 'One of America's greatest citizens'
Fox News via Yahoo News· 4 weeks agoA statue honoring the Rev. Billy Graham was unveiled on Thursday, May 16, at the U.S. Capitol. The...
Arkansans honor Daisy Bates as statue unveiled at U.S. Capitol
Arkansas Advocate via Yahoo News· 1 month agoMore than a hundred people filled the pews at Little Rock’s Second Baptist Church Wednesday to watch...
They want silence around Rosa Parks | BRIAN LYMAN
The Montgomery Advertiser via Yahoo News· 2 months agoThe Rosa Parks statue in Montgomery’s Court Square is not what you expect from a monument. That’s why I love it. There’s no pedestal. No stage. Nothing...
Statue of civil rights pioneer Mary McLeod Bethune replaces Confederate general sculpture at US...
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA statue of inspirational civil rights pioneer Mary McLeod Bethune has supplanted that of a...
Mary McLeod Bethune statue unveiling this week at the US Capitol in Washington, D.C.
Daytona Beach News-Journal via Yahoo News· 2 years agoDAYTONA BEACH — After an arduous five-year process that involved a series of state and federal...
Statuesque Rev. Graham tribute comes to the Capitol, but shies away from the limelight
Fox News via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoWhile conservative lawmakers hoped a new statue of the Rev. Billy Graham would be placed in one of...
Black educator Mary McLeod Bethune honored in U.S. Capitol's Statuary Hall
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoEvelyn Bethune, front left in yellow, a granddaughter of Mary McLeod Bethune, attends the unveiling...