Confederate statue removed from prominent spot at Ole Miss
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Confederate monument that’s been a divisive symbol at the University of Mississippi has been removed from a prominent spot on the Oxford campus. Workers removed the monument on Tuesday. It will be taken to a Civil War cemetery in a secluded area of campus. Students and faculty who pushed the university for years to move the statue have also criticized the draft plan for the new site. They say the university is attempting to placate people who favor the Confederate symbols with its plan to provide a lighted pathway to the figure, and possibly add headstones to the previously unmarked graves of other soldiers.
Confederate statue removed from prominent spot at Ole Miss
