In this month of national introspection, and as the air is full of the thump! of toppled statues, President Donald Trump proposed creating a national statuary park. His gallery of American heroes reflects his inclinations and impulses — several unavoidable pioneers, such as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and baseball pathfinder Jackie Robinson, along with 29 others, mostly white and Republican.
Many of the Trump selections — Amelia Earhart, for example, and Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony and the Wright Brothers — could be in everybody's pantheon. But the president's garden lacks a diverse mix of Americans at full flower. So in the interest of historical crop rotation — and in the ultimate pandemic parlor game — I've matched Trump's 31 selections with 31 of my own. Feel free to make your own lists.
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