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Bethune Gets Backing to Replace Confederate in US Capitol (FL)
By Jim Turner | November 16, 2017
... Mary McLeod Bethune is getting support in both chambers of the Legislature as a replacement for a Confederate general who has long represented Florida in the U.S. Capitol.
Over the objection of a senator who decried “cultural purging,” the Senate Appropriations Committee on Wednesday voted 18-1 to support a proposal (SB 472 and SCR 184) aimed at replacing the statue of Confederate Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith in the National Statuary Hall in Washington ...
https://www.law.com/dailybusinessreview/sites/dailybusinessreview/2017/11/16/bethune-gets-backing-to-replace-confederate-in-us-capitol/?slreturn=20171016214730
