Each state contributes two statues of historically important people to be displayed in Statuary Hall
Any statue removed and not owned by a state would be up to the Architect of the Capitol to address.
WASHINGTON – The House passed
a bill Tuesday that would remove Confederate statues from the U.S. Capitol as well as a bust of the former Supreme Court chief justice who wrote the 1857 Dred Scott decision that denied enslaved people the right to be citizens. This sacred space, this temple of democracy has been defiled for too long. We ought not to forget history. We must learn from history. But we ought not to honor that which defiles the principles for which we . stand, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., said on the House floor before the vote. It s time to remove those symbols of slavery, segregation and sedition from these halls.
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Statues of Confederates Do Not Belong in the U.S. Capitol By
July 1, 2021 - 12:17 am
America’s continual journey to “form a more perfect Union,” is often uneven. As Winston Churchill famously said, “Americans will always do the right thing, only after they have tried everything else.”
We are still sorting out issues of race, particularly as it relates to slavery, the Civil War and Jim Crow. Our progress is self-evident, but the vestiges of generations of separate, but unequal, remain.
Some of those symbols are glaring.
For example, the U.S. Capitol’s Statuary Hall contains statues of Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy, and Alexander H. Stephens, the vice-president. Georgia donated the Stephens statue in 1927 and Mississippi donated the Davis bronze likeness in 1931.