University of Texas removes 4 Confederate statues
By Alex Dobuzinskis
Reuters
August 21, 2017 - 11:20 am
The University of Texas at Austin removed four statues tied to the Confederacy from its campus on Monday, saying they had become symbols of white supremacy at a time of protests and fierce debate about race and the legacy of America’s Civil War ...
The president of the University of Texas at Austin, Greg Fenves, said that the “horrific displays of hatred” on show in Virginia had shocked and saddened the nation.
“These events make it clear, now more than ever, that Confederate monuments have become symbols of modern white supremacy and neo-Nazism,” Fenves said on Sunday in a statement ...
Among the four statues removed overnight at the University at Austin was one of General Robert E. Lee, who led the pro-slavery Confederacy’s army during the Civil War. Fenves said it will be placed in the school’s Briscoe Center for American History and made available for scholarly study ...
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