Removal of Confederate monuments and memorials
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title:
Removal of Confederate monuments and memorials
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There are more than 160 Confederate monuments and memorials to the Confederate States of America and associated figures that have been removed from public spaces in the United States, all but five of which have been since 2015. Some have been removed by state and local governments; others have been torn down by protestors. More than 700 such monuments and memorials have been created on public land, the vast majority in the South during the era of Jim Crow laws from 1877 to 1964. Efforts to remov
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Ongoing development in the United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Removal_of_Confederate_monuments_and_memorials
date created:
2017-08-16T20:52:18Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T16:47:13Z
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