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September 14, 2020

Charlottesville Tears Down Confederate Statue Near Site of 2017's "Unite the Right" Rally
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In Charlottesville, Virginia, a crowd cheered Saturday morning as
workers took down a statue of a Confederate soldier near the site of the
deadly, white supremacist "Unite the Right" rally in 2017. Virginia's
Supreme Court will decide the fate of two other Confederate statues in
Charlottesville - of Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall"
Jackson - after defenders of the Confederacy successfully blocked the
city from removing them.


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