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Leaders All Over U.S. Call for Removal of Confederate Monuments

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As South Carolina governor Nikki Haley gave the press conference in which she called for the Confederate flag to be removed from South Carolina's capitol building, lawmakers and activists in other states pressed for similar changes in their respective districts. In Maryland, Baltimore County leaders called on Baltimore city officials to give the County approval to change Robert E. Lee Park, named for the Confederate Civil War general, to Lake Roland Park. In Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. congressman Jim Cooper, a democrat, took to Twitter to call on state leaders to remove a bust of General Nathan Bedford Forrest from the state capitol. Down in Texas, a Change.org petition with 1,634 signatures is asking school officials to remove the statue of Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederate States of America, from the University of Texas' main campus in Austin.

Added on the 22/06/2015 18:05:21 - Copyright : Wochit

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