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Walmart Donates $100K to Replace Confederate Statues With Johnny Cash Statue

Walmart just ponied up $100,000 in cash to honor country icon Johnny Cash. ABC News reports that the big-box behemoth has donated that six-figure sum towards a campaign to replace Confederate statues at the National Statuary Hall in Washington, D.C., with new statues of the Man in Black and civil rights activist Daisy Bates.

 

Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson signed a bill last April that would swap out the state's current statues at the Statuary Hall with the likenesses of Cash and Bates, both Arkansas natives.

 

A spokesperson for the Arkansas-based Walmart says in a statement, "We support the effort by the state legislature and Governor Hutchinson to honor two prominent Arkansans, civil rights pioneer Daisy Bates and music legend Johnny Cash, with statues in National Statuary Hall. 

 

We are pleased to support the state's action with a gift to the Foundation for Arkansas Heritage and History to help make these new statues a reality."