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Each state has two statues in the U.S. Capitol that are meant to be representative of their people. Many argue that the two representing Mississippi — Confederate icons Jefferson Davis and J.Z. George — are not and need to be replaced.
Below is a list of possible substitutes, who must be deceased.
Who would you vote for? Pick two.
Medgar Evers, the longtime Mississippi NAACP leader who was assassinated in 1963
Fannie Lou Hamer, the sharecropper turned civil rights leader who captured the attention of the nation in the 1964 Democratic National Convention
Elvis Presley, "King of Rock and Roll"
Jimmy Rodgers, "Father of Country Music"
Robert Johnson, "the first ever rock star," according to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Muddy Waters, "Father of Modern Chicago Blues"
B.B. King, whose blues guitar playing inspired many
Theora Hamblett, Mississippi folk artist who achieved national prominence
William Winter, governor who ushered in education reform
Hiram Revels, the first Black American to serve in the U.S. Senate
Walter Payton, NFL great whose name is on the NFL Man of the Year Awar
William Faulkner, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner often regarded as the greatest writer of Southern literatur
Eudora Welty, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who became the first living author published by the Library of America
Richard Wright, whose stories about growing up in Mississippi helped change race relations in the nation
Tennessee Williams, one of the greatest playwrights of the 20th century
Dr. James D. Hardy, the surgeon who performed the world's first heart transplan
Dr. Aaron Shirley, the first Black resident at the University of Mississippi Medical Center who pioneered medical care for the underserved
Ida B. Wells, crusading journalist who documented the nation's lynchings of Black men, fought for women's voting rights and helped organize the NAACP
Oseola McCarty, the washerwoman who won a Presidential Citizens Medal for her generous philanthropy
Evelyn Gandy, former lieutenant governor and former secretary of state (the first woman to hold both those offices)
Pushmataha, born in Macon, Miss., one of the three regional chiefs of major divisions of the Choctaws in the 1800s and highly regarded among Native Americans, Europeans and white Americans for his skill and cunning in both war and diplomacy
Chief Philip Martin, who had a 40-year career in the tribal government, 32 of them as chief, was a Korean War veteran,chairman of the National Tribal Chairmen's Association and the one who brought casinos to the reservation
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