Thomas Jefferson statue removed from City Hall after 187 years

By News on the Net -- NY Post —— Bio and Archives November 23, 2021

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Thomas Jefferson is no longer in the room where it happens. Art handlers packed up an 884-pound statue of Jefferson in a wooden crate Monday after a mayoral commission voted to banish the likeness of the nation’s third president from City Hall where its resided for nearly two centuries — because he owned slaves.-- More...