Texas University Removes ‘white Supremacy’ Statues Overnight

Reuters, Raw Story: US News
Mon, 08/21/2017 - 3:45am

The University of Texas at Austin removed the statues of three Confederate-era figures from a main area on campus on Monday, saying they had become symbols of white supremacy and that they were taken down overnight to avoid confrontations. Violence broke out in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Aug. 12 ...

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Topics: university texas austin confederate-era charlottesville virginia aug statues overnight white supremacy

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