A Ku Klux Klan plaque is affixed to the entrance of the United States Military Academy's science center at West Point, a congressional commission has discovered.
The bronze plaque at the U.S. Military Academy includes an image of a person in a hood and the words "Ku Klux Klan" below it.Aug. 31, 2022, 4:39 PM UTCA Ku Klux Klan plaque is affixed to the entrance of the United States Military Academy's science center at West Point, a congressional commission has discovered.
The panel said it doesn't have the authority to recommend removal of the plaque because it is not specifically a confederate monument. "No doubts exist that Robert E. Lee fought for the Confederacy: he was its most effective and storied leader, and by the end of the Civil War, Lee had risen to General in Chief of the Armies of the Confederate States," the report said.
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