Bethune statue bill ready For Florida House
Originally published on February 14, 2018 1:55 pm
A proposal to place a statue of civil-rights leader .. Mary McLeod Bethune in the U.S. Capitol is ready to be considered by the full Florida House ...
The Senate has already approved its version of the proposal (SB 472), which would lead to the statue of Bethune replacing a likeness of Confederate Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith in National Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capitol. Similar to a move by the Senate, the House Appropriations Committee made a tweak to the bill Thursday that would seek the return of the Smith statue to Florida.
... Each state is represented by two statues at the national hall, with Florida .. represented by .. Smith and John Gorrie .. the father of air conditioning ...
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