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June 30, 2021

House Votes to Remove Confederate Statues from the Capitol
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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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