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What do you do with confederate monuments that are taken down?
A statue of a confederate soldier was pulled down last week at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. The school has a few months to figure out what to do with Silent Sam, which stood on campus for more than 100 years.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readA statue of a confederate soldier was pulled down last week at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. The school has a few months to figure out what to do with Silent Sam, which stood on campus for more than 100 years. The situation is complicated by the fact that North Carolina has a law that limits how and when historical objects like statues are moved.
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