John Malveaux of www.MusicUNTOLD.com tells AfriClassical: "Douglass statue in Constitution Hall-Douglass also was a violinist." John provides C-SPAN video entitled: "ACCEPTANCE OF STATUE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS FOR PLACEMENT IN EMANCIPATION HALL
The story of the vote was also reported in The New York Times:
New York Times
Washington to Get Bronze Representative in Capitol
By JENNIFER STEINHAUER
Published: September 13, 2012
WASHINGTON — Perhaps nowhere in America do the people of the District of
Columbia feel less respected than in the District of Columbia. Their
lone delegate to the House must sit, seething, as Congress approves the
District’s annual budget, absent the vote of that delegate, who is
prohibited from voting in the House.
Residents’ license plates proclaim not the glory of the District’s natural beauties or its bountiful fruits, but instead pout defiantly: “Taxation Without Representation.”
Only slightly less insulting to residents than their lack of a voting
member of Congress is the fact that the District has never been
represented in statue form in the city’s most glorious building. For
years, lawmakers refused to permit the District the two statues in the
Capitol that each state is permitted, pointing out that the District, in
fact, is not a state.
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