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160 Confederate symbols removed from public spaces last year: analysis Zack Budryk © Getty Images 160 Confederate symbols removed from public spaces last year: analysis At least 160 Confederate symbols were removed or transferred from public spaces last year, according to a Southern Poverty Law Center (SLPC) analysis shared with The Associated Press. "These racist symbols only serve to uphold revisionist history and the belief that white supremacy remains morally acceptable," the SPLC's chief of staff, Lecia Brooks, told the AP in a statement. "This is why we believe that a...

The law center has been tracking a movement to take down the monuments since 2015, when a white supremacist entered a South Carolina church and killed several Black parishioners.

The SPLC says 704 Confederate monuments are still standing across the U.S.

Sometime after visitors and tourists are welcomed back to the U.S. Capitol, there will be a statue saluting Virginia’s Barbara Johns, a 16-year-old Black girl who staged a strike in 1951 over unequal conditions at her segregated high school in Farmville. Her actions led to court-ordered integration of public schools across the U.S, via the landmark Supreme Court decision, Brown v. Board of Education. Each state legislature can choose up to two representatives to honor in the Capitol’s collection. In December, a state commission recommended replacing Lee’s statue with a statue of Johns. ...

“These racist symbols only serve to uphold revisionist history and the belief that white supremacy remains morally acceptable,” SPLC chief of staff Lecia Brooks said in a statement. “This is why we believe that all symbols of white supremacy should be removed from public spaces.”