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MEDORA, N.D. (AP) — The Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library successful North Dakota has agreed to instrumentality a arguable equestrian statue of the 26th president that has stood connected the steps of the American Museum of Natural History successful New York City since 1940.
The bronze statue was commissioned by the New York State Roosevelt Memorial successful 1929.
The library, which opens adjacent twelvemonth successful Medora, North Dakota, volition beryllium getting it arsenic a semipermanent loan.
The statue depicts the erstwhile president connected horseback with a Native American antheral and an African antheral flanking the horse.
It's been the taxable of years of disapproval that it symbolizes assemblage subjugation and radical discrimination.
In June, the New York City Public Design Commission voted unanimously to relocate the statue.
According to the New York Times, depository officials projected the statue beryllium removed past June.
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