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January 20, 2022

Theodore Roosevelt Statue Removed from Outside NYC's Natural History Museum
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Workers have started removing the statue of President Theodore Roosevelt
from the steps of the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
The city's Public Design Commission voted last June to take down the
monument amid nationwide protests and a reckoning with the racist legacy
of the U.S. The statue depicts Roosevelt on a horse, with a Native
American man and an African man standing beside him. In a statement, the
Natural History Museum said, "The statue itself communicates a racial
hierarchy the Museum and members of the public have long found
disturbing." The statue will go on long-term loan to North Dakota's
Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library, despite the objections of some
Indigenous groups in North Dakota.


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