Ron DeSantis formally asked Wednesday that the statue of civil-rights leader and educator Mary McLeod Bethune replace the likeness of a Confederate general as a representative of Florida in the U.S. Capitol.DeSantis sent a letter to the architect of the U.S. Capitol officially requesting that the Bethune statue be substituted for the one of General Edmund Kirby Smith in National Statuary Hall, a change Florida lawmakers approved last year.In a press release issued Wednesday, the governor’s office noted his request was made on the 144th anniversary of McLeod Bethune’s birth.“Dr. While recovering from being wounded at the The couple briefly reunited when Cassie followed her husband to In 1875 Kirby Smith accepted an appointment as a professor at the Reynold, William, Joseph, and Ephraim all played for the After the war, Kirby Smith was active in the telegraph business and in higher education. Florida's statue of Edmund Kirby Smith is being replaced by one of Civil Rights advocate and educator Mary McLeod Bethune, which as of July, 2018, had not been finished.
TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Phone: (954) 368-9931 Address: 1404 E. Las Olas Blvd #B2091, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33303 Cooperating with Gen. On January 14, 1863, Smith was transferred to command the Trans-Mississippi Department (primarily Arkansas, Western Louisiana, and Texas) and he remained west of the Following the Union capture of the remaining strongholds at Vicksburg and With the pressure relieved to the north, Smith attempted to send reinforcements east of the Mississippi. Instead he dispatched Maj. Gen. In 2016 the Florida Legislature passed a bill calling for the removal of Smith's statue at the U.S. Capitol and put in place a process to replace him. Edmund Kirby Smith is a bronze sculpture commemorating the United States Army officer of the same name by C. Adrian Pillars, installed in the United States Capitol Visitor Center as part of the National Statuary Hall Collection.The statue was gifted by the state of Florida in 1922.. Smith, who died in 1893, was the last surviving full General of either the CSA or GAR.
In this undated image made available by the Architect of the Capitol, shows the statue of Confederate Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith in the U.S. Capitol in Washington,. The Sessile-Flowered Trillia of the Southern States." Arkansas is pulling both of its controversial statues, swapping them for country singer Johnny Cash and civil rights leader Daisy Bates.The bill scheduled for a House vote on Wednesday would also remove a bust of Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, who wrote the Dred Scott opinion declaring that African Americans could not be citizens of the US, from the old Supreme Court chamber.“While the removal of Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney’s bust from the United States Capitol does not relieve the Congress of the historical wrongs it committed to protect the institution of slavery, it expresses Congress’s recognition of one of the most notorious wrongs to have ever taken place in one of its rooms, that of Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney’s Dred Scott v. Sandford decision,” the legislation states.A bust of Thurgood Marshall, the first Black Supreme Court justice, would replace Taney’s bust.A community in the Atlanta area is rallying around a teenager who lost both of his parents to COVID-19 just days apart, WSB reports. He donated to the Kirby Smith was assigned to teaching mathematics at West Point, from 1849 to 1852. In this undated image made available by the Architect of the Capitol, shows the statue of Confederate Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith in the U.S. Capitol in Washington,.