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Confederate monument removed in Winston-Salem

By: - March 12, 2019 1:58 pm

The Confederate monument in downtown Winston-Salem was removed today after decades of controversy, years of negotiation and months of legal maneuvering.


As Policy Watch reported earlier this year, the statue stood on private property – an apartment building that was once the county courthouse. Since it wasn’t on city or state owned land, it wasn’t covered by a 2015 state law that’s prevented the removal of such monuments in downtown Raleigh and at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Mayor Allen Joines proposed moving the statue to nearby Salem Cemetery, which is home to 36 Confederate graves. That’s where it will go after a few months in storage, during which the site will be prepared.

For more on the statue’s removal, read this story from the News & Record in Greensboro and watch video of its removal from its sister paper, the Winston-Salem Journal.

 

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Joe Killian
Joe Killian

Investigative Reporter Joe Killian's work examines government, politics and policy, with a special emphasis on higher education, LGBTQ issues and extremism.

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