confederate states of america
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Gary Chambers Wants To End the Confederacy
Senator Gary Chambers? The civil rights activist, wants to bring his fight against inequality and the remnants of the confederacy to the halls of Congress.
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Black Former Receptionist at Confederate Museum Files Discrimination Complaint
The complaint centers on her treatment while serving there
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Statue Honoring Black Civil War Soldiers Erected Across From Confederate Monument in Tennessee
The statue is a part of an art initiative intended to tell the full story about slavery, Reconstruction and Jim Crow in Franklin, Tenn.
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Urine Trouble: The Great Confederate Doo-Doo Chair Caper Concludes With No Charges
Prosecutors dropped charges against a trio accused of a multi-state heist that involved a Confederate monument, feces and Assata Shakur.
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Study: Counties With More Confederate Statues Had More Lynchings
The University of Virginia study showed that in any given area, the number of lynchings was a “significant predictor” for the number of memorials.
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Lawsuit Filed Over Century-Old Confederate Statue in the Majority-Black City of Tuskegee, Ala.
To invoke the spirit of chaos theorist Ian Malcolm, when these racist monuments gotta go, they gotta go.
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Georgia Has More Schools Named After Confederate Leaders Than Any Other State In the U.S.
The Southern Poverty Law Center Chief of Staff Lecia Brooks says that many of the schools are in Black or non-white communities.
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House Votes to Remove All Confederate Statues From US Capitol. Some Republicans are Predictably Big Mad
You would think that Republicans who are hellbent on burying America’s racist past would be OK with removing statues honoring America’s racist past, but no.