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#NMUKBBC "But by next year, by order of the US government, the monument must be removed. The decision is part of an ongoing movement to rethink how the US remembers the Confederacy. ...
Dr Ezekiel, a historian and professor emerita of women's and African American studies, thought little more of the statue until decades after her visit, in 2017.
That August, white supremacists gathered in Charlottesville, Virginia to protest the proposed removal of another statue, of Confederate General Robert E Lee.
Men marched through the streets chanting 'Jews will not replace us' and 'white lives matter'. An avowed neo-Nazi drove his car into a crowd, killing one person and injuring dozens more.
Watching the horror unfold on the news, Judith saw the far right demonstrators near a statue of Thomas Jefferson in the city. 'The irony is that it was sculpted by a Jew - it was also sculpted by Moses Ezekiel,' she says."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-66004176
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