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Report: 110 Confederate monuments removed in US since 2015
More than 1,700 remain
110 Confederate monuments taken down since 2015
In this June 18, 2015, file photo, a group of women pray together at a makeshift memorial on the sidewalk in front of Emanuel AME Church, in Charleston, S.C., where Dylann Roof shot and killed nine people while they were in a Bible study. A study released Monday, June 4, 2018, by the Southern Poverty Law Center shows about 110 Confederate monuments have been removed nationwide since 2015, when the shooting energized a movement against such memorials. - photo by Associated Press
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — It took generations to erect all the nation's Confederate monuments, and a new report shows they're being removed at a pace of about three each month.
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