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In keeping with a nationwide effort to remove monuments that have long honored racist figures, California State Parks officials recently removed a 1948 memorial honoring Madison Grant in Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park.

The House on Tuesday passed legislation to remove statues of Confederate leaders from the U.S. Capitol and replace the bust of Roger B. Taney, the U.S. chief justice who wrote the 1857 Supreme Court decision that said people of African descent are not U.S. citizens.