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		<title>Perry Thurston, others want Confederate statue issue resolved</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Former and current black lawmakers took to the Old Capitol steps Thursday to call for a likeness of educator and civil-rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune to replace a statue of a Confederate general now in the U.S. Capitol. Led by Sen. Perry Thurston, a Fort Lauderdale Democrat, and surrounded by alumni members of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, the group called for passage of Thurston&#8217;s bill (SCR 1360) that would formally approve Dr. Bethune to replace Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith in the Capitol’s National&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Florida now has three suggestions to replace Confederate statue</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Either the African-American woman who founded what&#8217;s now Bethune-Cookman University, the founder of Publix supermarkets or the woman credited with saving the Everglades will replace a Confederate general&#8217;s statue that represents Florida in the U.S. Capitol. The three Floridians were selected Wednesday by a committee that reviewed 130 recommendations made by the public. The Legislature will now choose which of the three will replace the statue of Edmund Kirby Smith. Mary McLeod Bethune, who founded Daytona Literary and Industrial Training&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Many Floridians of note deserve U.S. Capitol honor</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Martin Dyckman]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[Florida had been a state for less than a century when it came time to honor famous citizens with two statues at the U.S. Capitol, and there were few plausible candidates. Dr. John Gorrie, the physician who invented mechanical refrigeration – imagine modern Florida without it – was an outstanding choice. But from today&#8217;s perspective, Confederate Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith is a head-scratcher. Let 2016 be the year the Legislature finally retires him. Smith&#8217;s historical distinction was to command Rebel&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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