Confederate Statue Removed From Prominent Spot At University Of Mississippi

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The marble statue of a saluting Confederate soldier will be taken to a Civil War cemetery.

The statue at Ole Miss was a gathering point in 1962 for people who rioted to oppose court-ordered integration of the university. In February 2019, a rally by outside pro-Confederate groups at the monument prompted Ole Miss basketball players to kneel in protest during the national anthem at a game later that day.voted two weeks later to ask administrators to move the monument to the cemetery, where Confederate soldiers killed at the Battle of Shiloh are buried.

A former University of Mississippi student was arrested May 30 after he spray-painted “Spiritual Genocide” and left bloody hand prints on the monument. He was charged with defacing public property, and the monument was cleaned within days.

 

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