Confederate monuments were taken down in Florida and North Carolina on Monday, Aug. 14, and government leaders around the country are announcing plans to take them down in their communities as a national debate rages over whether they represent history or hate.
A rally by white nationalists protesting plans to remove a statue of General Robert E. Lee, commander of the pro-slavery Confederate army in the U.S. Civil War, sparked clashes with counter protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia on Saturday. A woman was killed and 19 people were injured when a car plowed into a crowd of counter-protesters.
In a related protest in Durham, North Carolina, on Monday, a group of youth brought down the statue of a confederate soldier.
The statue was erected in 1924 as a dedication to the city and it had “The Confederate States of America” engraved on the front of it. The statue was an archetype of a confederate soldier.
