Controversial statue of racist ex-Dearborn Mayor Orville Hubbard relocated (MI)
By Gus Burns
on September 29, 2015 at 1:27 PM
updated September 29, 2015 at 2:04 PM
... The bronze statue erected in 1989 pays homage to Orville Hubbard, Dearborn's 15-term Mayor from 1942 to 1978, who's remembered for his bigotry as much as his political triumphs. It's being moved from the public park near the former City Hall to the Dearborn Historical Museum ...
Laundroche said the historical museum is a great place for the statue to be presented in a "broader historical context."
The statue is on property sold to Artspace, along with a World War II memorial installation that will be relocated to a veteran's park ...
"I favor segregation," Hubbard was quoted as saying by the New York Times in 1969. "If you favor integration, you first have kids going to school together, then the next thing you know, they're grab-assing around, then they're getting married and having half-breed kids ...
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