At least 110 monuments and other tributes to the Confederacy have been removed across the country since Charleston church shooting three years ago. https://t.co/aC5ubWENcu pic.twitter.com/EZFAemkAkU
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) June 4, 2018
Most Confederate monuments were not erected right after the Civil War; they were erected during the period when Jim Crow laws were being enacted, and during the Civil Rights movement.
Confederate symbols are about hate, not heritage. #LoseTheLostCause https://t.co/PupheGxCra pic.twitter.com/K3EEXs6DDc
— Southern Poverty Law Center (@splcenter) June 5, 2018
Sad! 