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A statue honoring Mary McLeod Bethune is unveiled at the U.S. capitol

Educator and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune makes history as the first Black person to have a state-commissioned statue in the U.S. Capitol's Statuary Hall, replacing a confederate statue.

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