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Congress votes to remove a bust of the Dred Scott decision’s author from the Capitol

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The bill calls for replacing the bust of former Chief Justice Roger Taney, who wrote the decision upholding slavery, with one of Thurgood Marshall, the first Black person to serve on the high court.

(Image credit: J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

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