North park, Mount Vernon Place
This file appears in: Roger Brooke Taney Monument: Absent Statue of the Author of the Dred Scott Decision
In an earlier configuration of Mount Vernon Place, the Taney Monument sat in the center of an oval of grass facing the Washington Monument.
This file appears in: Roger Brooke Taney Monument: Absent Statue of the Author of the Dred Scott Decision
Roger Brooke Taney Monument: Absent Statue of the Author of the Dred Scott Decision
The Roger Brooke Taney Monument is not explicitly a Confederate monument. However, Taney is most famous for his decision in the Dred Scott case, which advanced slavery in America and is tied to the鈥�