Deadly Charlottesville Protests Accelerate Efforts to Remove Confederate Statues
A group of Durham activists tore down a statue of a young Confederate soldier outside the former courthouse, but the fight remains./ In Gainesville, Florida, workers hired by the Daughters of the Confederacy chipped away at a Confederate soldier’s statue, loaded it quietly on a truck and drove away with little fanfare. In Baltimore, Mayor Catherine Pugh said she’s ready to tear down all of her city’s Confederate statues, and the city council voted to have them destroyed. San Antonio lawmakers are looking ahead to removing a statue from a ...
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