New York Times: 'Washington to Get Bronze Representative in Capitol'

[A statue of Frederick Douglass, waiting nearby since 2007, will be moved to the Capitol.  (Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times)]

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

Full program: House Session
Sep 10, 2012
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/appearance/602254600

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.

But this week lawmakers approved a measure permitting a statue of the abolitionist Frederick Douglass, which has been holed up for years in a District government building a mile away, to be placed in the Capitol, as soon as President Obama signs the bill. The Frederick Douglass Residence, open as a museum, sits not far from the Capitol.