US Capitol 
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SOURCE: NPR
10/14/2021
Mary McLeod Bethune Statue is Coming to the Capitol
Florida legislators unanimously approved Bethune to replace Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith in the Capitol statuary in 2018.
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SOURCE: NPR
7/29/2021
95% of Capitol Sculptures Depict Men. Will That Change Soon?
Sen. Amy Klobuchar is a leader of a group of Senators who hope to increase the representation of women in the Capitol statuary.
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SOURCE: New York Times
6/29/2021
House Will Vote on Bill to Remove Confederate Statues from Capitol
The bill would remove from public view monuments to figures associated with the Confederacy or the causes of slavery and white supremacy that motivated it, including a bust of Chief Justice Roger Taney, author of the notorious Dred Scott decision.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
12/21/2020
Gen. Robert E. Lee Statue Removed From U.S. Capitol
Virginia will no longer be represented in the US Capitol's Statuary Hall by the military leader of the Confederacy.
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SOURCE: Boston Review
6/29/2020
Confederates in the Capitol
by William Hogeland
Even as the United States declined to enforce the Constitution in the former Confederate states, demolishing black citizens’ lives and liberty, first Lee and then the ten other Confederate statues arrived in the hall, with others that have since been replaced, and were embraced by the collection. The whole federal government approved.
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