…and here is Thurgood…

…and here is Thurgood Marshall.

On the other side of the capitol is a statue of Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney best known as author of the Dred Scott v. Sanford decision, which said African Americans were not citizens.

There was a movement to remove this statue but they decided to put Thurgood Marshall on the other side instead to, according to Dan, let people see both the best and the worst.

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