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the group is additionally initiating "a concerted offensive." The Sons of Confederate Veterans "and, in a quieter way, the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the group that erected many of the monuments that are now the target of the biggest removal campaign in history, are pushing back by building new s
— 10:00 PM EDT) * Public viewing continues tomorrow from 8:00 AM EDT to 10:00 PM EDT * Lewis died on the same day as late civil rights leader Rev. C.T. Vivian, whose funeral was held last week * He is the second Black lawmaker to lie in state, alongside late Rep. Elijah Cummings, who died in October 2019
red sympathetic to the flag and symbols of the Confederacy of 1861-65 American Civil War," and "in 2017, he decried the removal of monuments to the Confederacy, laying blame on 'both sides' in Charlottesville, Virginia, after protests against the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee, a Confederate general."
years." Meanwhile, the New York Times (7/18, Rojas, 18.61M) reports that in Atlanta, Lewis' death "came as many in the city were grieving the Rev. C.T. Vivian, another pioneering figure and associate of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who also died in Atlanta." The Times adds the Rev. Bernice A. King
s. The Washington Post (7/25, Sullivan, 14.2M) reports Virginia communities "are finally grappling with whether to renounce their veneration of the Confederacy, more than 150 years after the Civil War ended." According to the Post, "Many of the statues and monuments that still dot courthouse lawns and traf
- 10:00 PM EDT) * Public viewing continues tomorrow from 8:00 AM EDT to 10:00 PM EDT * Lewis died on the same day as late civil rights leader Rev. C.T. Vivian, whose funeral was held last week * He is the second Black lawmaker to lie in state, alongside late Rep. Elijah Cummings, who died in October 2019
s. The Washington Post (7/25, Sullivan, 14.2M) reports Virginia communities "are finally grappling with whether to renounce their veneration of the Confederacy, more than 150 years after the Civil War ended." According to the Post, "Many of the statues and monuments that still dot courthouse lawns and traf
- 10:00 PM EDT) * Public viewing continues tomorrow from 8:00 AM EDT to 10:00 PM EDT * Lewis died on the same day as late civil rights leader Rev. C.T. Vivian, whose funeral was held last week * He is the second Black lawmaker to lie in state, alongside late Rep. Elijah Cummings, who died in October 2019
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