House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says four portraits of former House speakers who served in the Confederacy will be removed on Friday
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent a letter to the House Clerk on Thursday asking for the removal of portraits of four former speakers of the House who served in the Confederacy, the latest effort by Congress to reexamine Capitol Hill's relationship to Confederate leaders and symbols.
During her weekly news conference, Pelosi said the portraits will be removed on Friday, Juneteenth, the holiday that commemorates the date that Union Army Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger rode into Galveston, Texas, and told slaves of their emancipation. The holiday is the oldest regular US celebration of the end of slavery. Pelosi said Thursday she wasn't aware until recently that the former speakers served in the Confederacy.
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