The statue of the racist former Gov. Theodore Bilbo has disappeared from the Capitol. But this isn’t the first time it has been moved.
by Bobby Harrison, Mississippi Today February 4, 2022 It was a Saturday in the early 1980s before then-Gov. William Winter attended a college football game at Memorial Stadium in Jackson that he ordered the statue of perhaps the state’s most vocal racist, Theodore Bilbo, be moved out of the Capitol rotunda. “I was with him when he did it,” said Andy Mullins, who at the time was a special assistant to the governor.
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