Lynching is about to become a federal crime. One senator partially responsible for preventing it from happening in the previous century: Richard Russell, whose name adorns the Senate’s most storied office building.
Chuck Schumer had proposed renaming the building after John McCain instead of Richard Russell, an arch-segregationist and opponent of civil rights. Some senior Republicans didn’t like the idea.
Last week Lindsey Graham told me he now wants to rename the Capitol Visitor Center for John McCain and John Lewis, the late lawmaker and civil rights icon.
There has also been an effort also to replace Georgia’s statue of racist Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens with a statue of John Lewis.
How racist was Stephens? This racist:
https://twitter.com/StevenTDennis/status/1035297763196628994
A little more on Richard Russell.
https://twitter.com/steventdennis/status/1035291183247974400
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