State lawmakers voted to replace the statue of Confederate Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith at the National Statuary Hall with a statue of educator and civil-rights leader Mary McLeod Bethune amid a nationwide backlash against Confederate symbols that followed the 2015 shooting deaths of nine black worshippers at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina.
September 21, 2020 at 02:19 PM
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Florida will hold off for now on deciding the future home of a statue of a Confederate general that has represented the state at the U.S. Capitol for nearly a century.
More than two months after Lake County commissioners reversed an earlier decision for their community to accept the bronze likeness of Confederate Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith, Mark Ard, a spokesman for Secretary of State Laurel Lee, said the future of the Smith statue is not resolved.
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Bronze statue of Confederate Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith (1824-1893). Photo by U.S. Capitol via Wikimedia Commons
