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College students take aim at 19th Century editor's statue
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Some Georgia State University students are demanding that Atlanta's mayor remove a prominent statue of Henry Grady from downtown, seen Wednesday in Atlanta. Grady was a newspaper editor who advocated for a "New South" after the Civil War, but the students say he was a racist.
ATLANTA — Some Georgia State University students are demanding that Atlanta's mayor remove a prominent downtown statue of a 19th Century newspaper editor who called for maintaining white supremacy in the South.
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