Senator Hiram Revels and Fannie Lou Hamer; request joint committee on Library of Congress to approve replacement of current statues with statues of.

Summary

The concurrent resolution requests that the Joint Committee on the Library of Congress approve replacing Mississippi’s two statues in the U.S. Capitol—Jefferson Davis and James Z. George—with statues of civil‑rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer and Senator Hiram Rhodes Revels, the first Black U.S. senator. The measure seeks to align the state’s representation in the Capitol with contemporary values and honor its African‑American heritage.

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