A tale of two Taneys: State House statue not facing same debate as Frederick bust (MD)
By Nancy Lavin
23 hrs ago
... The Annapolis monument sculpted by William Rinehart was erected in front of the capitol building in 1872, well before the 1931 unveiling of the Frederick bust at the then-Frederick County Courthouse ...
Two more plaques were installed last year after the most recent wave of debate about the statue in Annapolis — one providing a biographical sketch of Dred Scott and the second with information on the Supreme Court case. Nearly two decades ago, a similar discussion resulted in the addition of a statue across State House grounds dedicated to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall ...
Delegate David Moon, a Democrat representing District 20 in Montgomery County, .. described the Taney statue as a symbol of the Confederacy, at least in terms of the public outrage surrounding its ties to the darker moments in civil rights history. Moon was one of several state delegates who advocated for the Maryland Department of Transportation and Motor Vehicle Administration to stop issuing Confederate flag license plates ...
A city-owned park in Baltimore houses a third statue of Taney. Howard Libit, director of strategic policy and planning for the mayor’s office, declined to comment on the statue until a commission recently appointed by the mayor to review the city’s Confederate monuments has finished its work ...
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