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Decatur marchers push for the removal of monument
Bill Banks
For the AJC
6:13 p.m Monday, Sept. 11, 2017
... people marched through Decatur’s downtown this weekend carrying all manner of homemade posters and banners denouncing fascism, Trumpism, slavery, the Confederacy and those monuments honoring it.
Later as darkness fell Sunday, and the speechifying wound down on the city’s square, a stark, white-lettered message flashed on the old DeKalb County Courthouse reading, “Dismantle White Supremacy.”
The predominant object of scorn: A Confederate obelisk that’s resided either in front or behind the courthouse for 109 years ...
http://www.ajc.com/news/local/marchers-decatur-push-for-the-removal-confederate-monument/0aYp4bvIftSYAxKM3g7pAO/
