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June 22, 2020

More Confederate and Racist Statues Fall Across the Country
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Statues to Confederates, colonizers and other racist historical figures
continue to fall. In Raleigh, North Carolina, protesters used ropes to
pull two statues from a monument to Confederate soldiers outside of the
state Capitol building Friday. In San Francisco, protesters tore down
monuments to Francis Scott Key, who composed the U.S. national anthem,
and Junípero Serra, an 18th century Spanish priest who oversaw a mission
that enslaved, tortured and murdered Indigenous people. They also
toppled a statue of Union army general and U.S. President Ulysses S.
Grant, who once held a person in slavery. In Washington, D.C.,
protesters toppled a statue of Confederate General Albert Pike and set
it on fire. And here in New York, the Museum of Natural History says
it's removing a statue of President Theodore Roosevelt, who is depicted
riding on a horse above an Indigenous person and enslaved person on
either side of him.


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