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Battle Over Confederate Monuments Moves to the Cemeteries
Vandals in August decapitated a statue of a Confederate soldier that stood in Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery in Columbus, Ohio.
Eric Albrecht / The Columbus Dispatch, via Associated Press
By JULIE BOSMAN
September 21, 2017

MADISON, Wis. — One by one, Confederate monuments are coming down from their perches in front of courthouses, in public squares, along city boulevards.

Now opponents to the memorials are looking through cemetery gates for more.

Local officials and residents, outraged by the violence in Charlottesville, Va., last month and determined to clear their cities of markers that glorify the Confederacy, are pushing for the removal of Confederate monuments that have adorned the graves of soldiers for decades.

In the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles, a six-foot granite monument with a bronze plaque dating to 1925 was covered with a tarp and whisked away in the middle of the night after activists called for its removal and spray-painted the word “No” on its back.

More: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/09/...cemeteries.html?referer=http://m.facebook.com
 
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