The House passed a bill Wednesday to replace a U.S. Capitol bust of former Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney, who wrote the infamous decision to protect slavery in the 1857 Dred Scott case, with a bust of the first black justice, Thurgood Marshall.

The 1857 decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford established that neither enslaved nor free African Americans were considered citizens in the country and thus were not protected by the U.S. Constitution. The ruling was part of U.S. law until 1865, the year the Civil War ended, coinciding with passage of the 13th and 14th Amendments soon after.