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Richmond council seeks input on Jefferson Davis highway name

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A pedestal that held a statue of Robert E. Lee stands empty outside a high school named for the Confederate general in Montgomery, Ala. on Tuesday, June 2, 2020. Four people were charged with criminal mischief after someone removed the statue amid nationwide protests over the police killing of George Floyd in Minnesota. (AP Photo/Kim Chandler)

Board votes to rename 3 schools honoring Confederates

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Demostrators gather near North Carolina Confederate statue

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FILE - This June 23, 2015 file photo shows a carving depicting Confederate Civil War figures Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis, in Stone Mountain, Ga. The sculpture is America's largest Confederate memorial. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)

Armed protesters march through Georgia’s Stone Mountain Park

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Confederate statue toppled, vandalized at Maryland church

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Cost to move Davis statue from Kentucky Capitol: $225K

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A statue of Stonewall Jackson at Manassas National Battlefield was vandalized with the letters "BLM" painted on the base. (National Park Service)

Manassas battlefield hit with Black Lives Matter graffiti

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Monday, June 29, 2020, file photo, City of Tupelo Community Outreach Coordinator Marcus Gary takes down the Mississippi state flag that flew over the City Hall of Tupelo one last time Monday, June 29, 2020. Mississippi is retiring the last state flag in the U.S. that includes the Confederate battle emblem. (Thomas Wells/The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal via AP, File)

Confederate flag losing prominence 155 years after Civil War

By JAY REEVES - Associated Press

New gun laws, other Democratic priorities to go into effect

By ALAN SUDERMAN - Associated Press

Construction workers move a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee as they begin the removal of the Confederate War Memorial at Pioneer Park on Monday, June 22, 2020, in downtown Dallas. (Ryan Michalesko/The Dallas Morning News via AP)

Removing Confederate statues does not erase U.S. history

By Jacob Bruggeman

In this Feb. 28, 2019, photo a worker adjusts a banner celebrating Alabama's bicentennial outside the Department of Archives and History in Montgomery, Ala. Alabama's main state history agency is acknowledging that it helped perpetuate systemic racism by promoting Confederate narratives while ignoring those of Black people, a &quot;statement of recommitment&quot; issued Tuesday, June 23, 2020 by the Alabama Department of Archives and History said. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves, File)

Alabama history agency admits perpetuating systemic racism

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The statue of a Confederate soldier and plinth sit on a flatbed truck at the Old Capitol in Raleigh, N.C., on Sunday, June 21, 2020. After protesters pulled down two smaller statues on the same monument Friday, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper ordered the removal of several other monuments to the Confederacy, citing public safety concerns. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)

Confederate monument remnants removed at N Carolina Capitol

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In this April 25, 2020 photograph, a small Mississippi state flag is held by a participant during a drive-by &quot;re-open Mississippi&quot; protest past the Governor's Mansion, in the background, in Jackson, Miss. This current flag has in the canton portion of the banner the design of the Civil War-era Confederate battle flag, that has been the center of a long-simmering debate about its removal or replacement. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Southeastern Conference pushing Mississippi to change flag

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 5, 2015 file photo, a statue of Jefferson Davis, left, faces a statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Rotunda of the state Capitol in Frankfort, Ky. The statues tower over visitors to Kentucky's Capitol, but the state's governor doesn't think the Confederate president belongs in the same space as the U.S. president who helped end slavery. Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear said Thursday, June 4, 2020 that he sees the Davis statue as a divisive symbol that should be removed from the Capitol Rotunda. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley, File)

Kentucky panel votes to remove Davis statue from Capitol

By BRUCE SCHREINER - Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo dated Wednesday, June 10, 2020, a damaged Christopher Columbus statue stands in a waterfront park near the city's traditionally Italian North End neighborhood, in Boston, USA., after the statue was found beheaded Wednesday morning. Statues of the 15th-century explorer and the Spanish conquistadors who followed him and colonized much of the Americas have not become targets for demonstrators in Spain and USA. The death of George Floyd at the hands of police and Minneapolis, USA, has sparked a re-examination of injustices and inequalities in the fabric of many societies, often symbolized in statues of historical figures have become the focus of protest around the world. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, FILE)

Activists take aim at conquistador statues in New Mexico

By MORGAN LEE - Associated Press

Confederate memorabilia bar off, then on tourism website

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Protesters in Virginia topple statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis along Richmond’s famed

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FILE - In this Sept. 24, 2019, file photo, Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs talks about voter registration at Phoenix College on National Voter Registration Day in Phoenix. The top election official in Arizona's most populous county took the unprecedented step Friday, March 13, 2020, of ordering ballots for next week's Democratic presidential primary mailed to all voters who normally casts ballots at the polls to ensure they can vote with minimal exposure to the new coronavirus. But the move by Maricopa County Recorder Adrian Fontes may not stand and drew some criticism from fellow Democrats, Maricopa County Supervisor Steve Garrado, and Hobbs. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Arizona official wants Confederate monument removed

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Tennessee school to remove statue of Confederate soldier

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Protesters demand justice for George Floyd, during a demonstration in Montgomery, Ala., Monday, June 1, 2020. Floyd died May 25 in Minneapolis after being restrained by police. (Jake Crandall/The Montgomery Advertiser via AP)

Confederate monuments coming down around South amid protests

By JAY REEVES - Associated Press