Confederate statues

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/27/19
  

  With a brass band blaring, artist Kehinde Wiley goes off to war with Confederate statues

  Kehinde Wiley, the man who painted the portrait of Barack Obama that now hangs in the National Portrait Gallery, unveiled his latest work, a monumentally scaled bronze equestrian statue of Confederate general J.E.B. Stuart.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  7/26/19
  

  A Confederate statue graveyard could help bury the Old South

  by Jordan Brasher and Derek H. Alderman

  If the aim of statue removal is to build a more racially just South, then, as many analysts have pointed out, putting these monuments in storage is a lost opportunity. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  6/22/19
  

  What Should Happen to Confederate Statues? A City Auctions One for $1.4 Million

  Dallas, unable to find a suitable new home for a bronze statue of Robert E. Lee on horseback that had sat in a city park until 2017, recently sent the artifact to an online auction.

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• SOURCE: Newsweek
  6/20/19
  

  Confederate Statue Vandalism Becoming More Frequent in the South

  Just this week, the Confederate Defenders of Charleston monument in South Carolina was splattered with red paint, and police have already accused two people of vandalism.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian.com
  5/3/19
  

  Judge Rules Charlottesville’s Confederate Statues Are War Monuments

  But the legal fight to remove the city’s statues of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson may not be over.

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• 1/4/18
  

  The Year It Became Embarrassing to Fly the Confederate Flag

  An interview with James W. Loewen.