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House Votes to Remove Confederate Statues from the Capitol

HeadlineJun 30, 2021

The House voted Tuesday to remove Confederate statues on display in the Capitol building. The bill would replace a bust of Roger Taney, who wrote the 1857 Dred Scott decision denying citizenship to African Americans, with one of Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Supreme Court justice. The bill now heads to the Senate.

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