US city removes last public Confederate statue
Mayor of Richmond, Virginia, ordered Confederate symbols removed amid 2020 racial justice protests across US.
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Mayor of Richmond, Virginia, ordered Confederate symbols removed amid 2020 racial justice protests across US.
Richmond was the capital of the Confederacy for most of the Civil War. It has removed its last city-owned Confederate statue.
RICHMOND, Va. — The city of Richmond — the capital of the Confederacy for most of the Civil War — removed its last city-owned Confederate statue on Monday, more than two years after it began to purge itself of what many saw as painful symbols of racial oppression. It took
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