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🚨#BREAKING: The SPLC has released the 3rd edition of our #WhoseHeritage report tracking Confederate memorials across the U.S.

The #CivilWar ended 150+ years ago. Yet still, 2,089 memorials honoring the Confederacy stand.

View the report: splcenter.org/whose-heritage
Following the 2015 mass shooting in #Charleston, SC, SPLC launched the 2016 #WhoseHeritage report along with a comprehensive and publicly accessible database.

To date, 375 memorials have been removed, relocated, or renamed.

Use our map below to view: splcenter.org/whose-heritage…
To help you remove Confederate memorials from your community, we've created the #WhoseHeritage Advocacy Toolkit below.

Use the toolkit to support and share the #WhoseHeritage campaign through social media and with your local news organization:

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We’re here at the @Ctr4CHR joining the @NAACPGA, @NAACPAtlanta, @NationalSCLC and several other orgs ahead of the Georgia General Assembly calling for necessary, long overdue change—that begins with the takedown of Confederate monuments throughout the South.
There are 159 counties in Georgia. Ninety-two of them have Confederate monuments.
“This is a momentous occasion, but this is just the beginning.

“We cannot have a united country until we remove the symbols that divided this country.” —First Vice President of @NAACPAtlanta Gerald Griggs
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The Richmond report urging the removal of the Jefferson Davis monument from Monument Avenue is a step forward towards eradicating the Lost Cause mythology from popular belief. But it doesn’t go far enough. #losethelostcause richmond.com/news/local/cit…
People across the country are waking up to the reality that public tributes to the Confederacy perpetuate the idea of white supremacy and glorify a regime that supported the torture, murder and enslavement of black people. #whoseheritage splcenter.org/20180604/whose…
That’s why white supremacists today continue to wave the Confederate flag. It’s time for courageous political leaders to say enough is enough. splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017…
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The Sons of Confederate Veterans have withdrawn their request to place a marker honoring Confederate Gen. James Deshler on the lawn of the Colbert County Courthouse in Tuscumbia, AL. #LoseTheLostCause al.com/news/index.ssf…
Collective action has power, as demonstrated by the residents of Tuscumbia, Alabama.
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