Plaque Honoring Confederate Soldiers Removed From MD Capitol

MARYLAND — The four members of the State House Trust voted this week to remove a plaque from Maryland's Capitol that honors the Civil War's Union and Confederate soldiers. According to the Associated Press, the members voted to remove the plaque after Maryland House Speaker Adrienne Jones brought up her opposition to the plaque again. The other voting members of the State House Trust are Lt. Gov. Boyd Rutherford, Senate President Bill Ferguson and Laura Mears, the chair of the Maryland Historical Trust. Ferguson, a Baltimore Democrat, voiced his support for removing the plaque last week.

Last year, the panel covered the plaque featuring U.S. and Confederate flags with an image of Maryland's state flag. A Democrat who is Maryland’s first black and first female House speaker, Jones brought up her concerns about the plaque again last week, the AP noted.

“The past two weeks have reignited our national conversation about the systemic racial injustice that continues throughout the United States of America,” she wrote on Twitter. “I want to thank the State House Trust for this important vote today to remove this confederate-sympathizing plaque. We have made great strides to reflect the importance of African-Americans in our State’s history over the past year.”