Grappling With Emblems Of Our Past (AR)
By JACOB KAUFFMAN • 19 HOURS AGO
... Love represents a majority African-American district in Little Rock and was at the forefront of a failed effort this Spring to disjoin the dual state observance of Robert E Lee and Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
“This is indoctrination. It is definitely a sign that we will never leave, we will never conclude this battle,” said Love.
Across the Capitol lawn, within eyesight of a monument commemorating the integration of Little Rock's Central High School, sits a dedication to the soldiers that waged a war of separation.
Miller, who heads the Arkansas chapter of what the Southern Poverty Law Center calls the pre-eminent neo-Confederate hate group says he’s proud of the display ...
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