USWCC Supports Harriet Tubman Statue Maryland Legislation
3/9/2012
In 2011, Maryland NOW and a coalition supported a bill to replace one of Maryland's two official state statues in the Statuary Hall collection at the U.S. Capitol with a statue of Harriet Tubman.
The original intent for this visible presence of a Maryland woman in a collection of 93% male figures was to 1) start to develop more of a gender balance in the U.S. Capitol; and 2) upd...
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