Confederate Painting in Mississippi Capitol Must Go, Senator Says
A painting of two generals raising a Confederate flag remains memorialized in the Mississippi Capitol rotunda’s dome. A senator wants it removed.
A painting of two generals raising a Confederate flag remains memorialized in the Mississippi Capitol rotunda’s dome. A senator wants it removed.
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“I can’t tell you how many white people, many of them young, have walked up to me at a restaurant or a grocery store and said: ‘Thank you. I was taught the Civil War wasn’t about slavery,” Editor Donna Ladd writes, explaining why her Mississippi newsrooms have reported difficult historic context for over two decades.
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