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Aug 20, 2007
Helen Keller Statue Heading to Capitol
A new statue is heading to the National Statuary Hall Collection in the U.S. Capitol — but it’s not either of the long-requested two statues to represent the District of Columbia. Alabama has decided to replace one of its two statues, of Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry, a former congressman, Confederate general and professor who advocated for free universal education, with one of Helen Keller, the famed Socialist Party activist and the first deaf and blind…