Confederate officer and white supremacist represent NC in the US Capitol
BY BRIAN MURPHY
AUGUST 21, 2017 6:40 PM
... Vance was a Confederate officer, two-time governor and U.S. senator. Aycock was the state’s “education governor” – and .. a white supremacist and segregationist who as governor stripped blacks of the right to vote ...
State lawmakers voted in 2015 to replace Aycock’s statue with one of Charlotte-born evangelist Billy Graham ... But rules dictate that honorees be deceased ...
Among the state-sponsored statues in the hall, 12 honor people with links to the Confederacy, including Vance, and none are of black Americans ...
In recent years, Aycock’s name has been stripped off buildings at colleges across the state.
North Carolina’s .. statue .. of Vance ... was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection in 1916 ...
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