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MS HC12
Concurrent Resolution
Status
4/1/2023
Primary Sponsor
Robert Johnson
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AI Summary
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Formally requests the Joint Committee on the Library of Congress to approve replacing Mississippi's two statues in the National Statuary Hall Collection—currently depicting Jefferson Davis and James Zachariah George—with statues of civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer and Senator Hiram Rhodes Revels
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Hiram Rhodes Revels was the first African American to serve in the United States Congress, sworn in as a U.S. Senator from Mississippi on February 25, 1870
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Fannie Lou Hamer was a voting rights advocate who helped organize the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, the "Freedom Summer" initiative in 1964, and worked on programs including Head Start and the Freedom Farm Cooperative
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Requests the Governor of Mississippi to issue a proclamation approving the statue replacement and create a commission to solicit private contributions for the creation and placement of the new statues
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Mississippi would bear all costs related to the replacement, including design, construction, transportation, placement of new statues, and removal of existing ones
Legislative Description
Senator Hiram Revel and Fannie Lou Hamer; request the joint committee on the Library of Congress to approve the replacement of the statues of James Zachariah George and Jefferson Davis with statues of.
Last Action
Died In Committee
4/1/2023