NEW YORK (KFGO) – A controversial statue of President Theodore Roosevelt that has lengthy been criticized by civil rights activists has been faraway from New York’s American Museum of Pure Historical past.
The “Equestrian Statue of Theodore Roosevelt” can be moved to Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Medora, North Dakota.
The statue, unveiled in 1940, depicts Roosevelt on horseback, with a Native American man on one facet and a Black man on the opposite.
In June 2020, the museum requested that the statue be eliminated. “The statue itself communicates a racial hierarchy that the Museum and members of the general public have lengthy discovered disturbing,” the museum wrote.
The New York Metropolis Public Design Fee voted final June to take away the statue.
The library is scheduled to open in 2026, the 250th anniversary of the USA.
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