Senator Hiram Revels and Fannie Lou Hamer; request joint committee on Library of Congress to approve replacement of current statues with statues of.
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Summary
The concurrent resolution asks the Joint Committee on the Library of Congress to remove Mississippi's two current statues in the U.S. Capitol and install new statues honoring civil‑rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer and the first Black U.S. senator, Hiram Rhodes Revels. It also asks the governor to issue a proclamation supporting the request and to form a commission of state artists to raise private funds for the new works. The measure would have the state cover all costs of design, construction, transport, removal and unveiling.
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