Florida is replacing one of it's two official statues in Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capital...of Confederate Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith...with one of Mary McLeod Bethune. The ceremony is set for today.
Each state has two statues in the collection.
The Washington Post reports:
"...nine statues depicting Confederates remain in the Capitol: Joseph Wheeler representing Alabama*, Alexander Stephens representing Georgia, Edward Douglass White representing Louisiana, Jefferson Davis and James Z. George representing Mississippi, Zebulon B. Vance representing North Carolina, Wade Hampton III representing South Carolina and John E. Kenna representing West Virginia."
* Alabama replaced it's statue of slave-owning confederate general Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry with one of Helen Keller in 2009. The old Curry statue is in the Archives building in Montgomery.
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