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“Activists Pushed for Years to Topple These Confederate Statues. This Week They Came Down in Minutes,” by Tim Murphy for Mother Jones
In 2017, New Orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu faced death threats for attempting to take down the city’s Confederate and Redemption-era monuments. But this week, protesters across the country—and as far as Belgium—have toppled similar statues that have stood for more than a century in a matter of minutes.
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