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Confederate icon’s descendant advocates for removing ancestor’s statue from U.S. Capitol
Biloxi Sun Herald via Yahoo News· 3 months agoThe great-great-great grandson of Confederate icon J.Z. George wants to see his ancestor’s statue...
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...
Civil rights leader Daisy Bates and music legend Johnny Cash to replace Arkansas statues at the US...
CNN via Yahoo News· 1 month agoCash and Bates will replace century-old Arkansas statues of James Paul Clarke and Uriah M. Rose in...
Democrats reintroduce legislation to remove remaining Confederate statues in U.S. Capitol
WSOC via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThere are thousands of unique pieces of art throughout the U.S. Capitol grounds. Some of these...
South is reckoning with past by renaming, removing shrines to the past. What is next?
The Clarion Ledger via Yahoo News· 1 month agoAfter myriad renamings of revered military bases and other institutions, plus the removal of...
Will Mississippi be the next state to remove Confederate statues from U.S. Capitol?
Biloxi Sun Herald via Yahoo News· 4 months agoEach U.S. state is allowed to place two statues of people “illustrious for their historic renown” or...
Mississippi leaders hesitant to replace white supremacists statues in Washington
Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, Tupelo via Yahoo News· 1 year agoJan. 27—JACKSON — Legislative leaders are noncommittal or hesitant to advance legislation that replaces Mississippi two statues of white supremacists in the U.S. Capitol. House Rules Committee ...
The 44 Percent: statues, investigation of CBP agents in Del Rio & Quinta Brunson
Miami Herald via AOL· 2 years agoDid you know about the statues in the U.S. Capitol? Here’s how they got there. In 1864, the United...
History-making statue of Mary Bethune now stands tall for Florida in U.S. Capitol
Miami Herald via AOL· 2 years agoAn 11-foot marble likeness of civil-rights leader and educator Mary McLeod Bethune was unveiled...
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...