Georgia House to consider replacing Confederate statue with statue of John Lewis

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Stephens delivered the notorious 1861 "Cornerstone Speech," in which he explicitly described chattel slavery and white supremacy as foundational to the Confederacy.

Several states have switched out statues of Confederate figures in the hall over the years, including most recently Virginia's statue of Robert E. Lee. Virginia lawmakers voted to replace Lee with Barbara Rose Johns Powell, a plaintiff in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education civil rights case.