The bill would replace the bust of Taney with one of Baltimore-born Thurgood Marshall, who in 1967 became the high court’s first Black justice.
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Congress approves removing statue of Supreme Court chief justice who wrote Dred Scott decisionThe House has passed a bill that would remove from public display at the U.S. Capitol a statue of Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney, who wrote the 1857 Dred Scott decision that defended slavery and denied the citizenship of Black Americans.
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House approves removal of bust of Supreme Court justice who wrote Dred Scott decision, protecting slaveryThe House has approved the removal from the Capitol of the bust of former Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney, who wrote the infamous Dred Scott Supreme Court decision, and replace it with one depicting late Justice Thurgood Marshall.
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Congress Votes To Remove Bust Of Dred Scott Decision Author From CapitolThe U.S. Supreme Court justice wrote the infamous 1857 decision that held African-Americans were not citizens.
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Bust of Thurgood Marshall to replace author of racist Dred Scott ruling in U.S. CapitolCivil rights icon Marshall was the first Black U.S. Supreme Court justice.
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Congress agrees to remove statue of Dred Scott decision authorA bust honoring Roger Taney, the author of the Dred Scott decision that said African Americans couldn't be American citizens, is finally on its way out.
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Congress votes to remove a bust of the Dred Scott decision's author from the CapitolCongress voted to replace a bust in the Capitol of Roger Taney, the Supreme Court justice who wrote the Dred Scott decision, with one of Thurgood Marshall, the first Black person to serve on the high court.
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