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Florida’s Confederate general closer to exit
John Kennedy
June 22, 2016
A state panel Wednesday recommended a civil rights and education icon, a renowned environmentalist, and the founder of the grocery chain Publix as possible replacements for a Confederate general in the U.S. Capitol’s National Statuary Hall ...
Mary McLeod Bethune, the educator and civil rights activist who founded what today is Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach;
Marjory Stoneman Douglas, environmentalist and author of the 1947 work The Everglades: River of Grass;
George Jenkins, Jr., founder of the Publix grocery store chain in 1930, which now has more than 1,000 stores across the Southeast.
http://postonpolitics.blog.palmbeachpost.com/2016/06/22/floridas-confederate-general-getting-closer-to-the-exit/