What Happened to All Those Racist Statues We Took Down?

‘LOSER’S PARK’

Sell it to a rich golf resort owner? Put it in the incinerator? Cities are grappling with what to do with scores of toppled Confederate statues.

Race and Identity Reporter

Published Jan. 16 2022 9:25PM EST

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In the wake of the Unite the Right rally in 2017—and even more so during the George Floyd protests of 2020—hundreds of Confederate monuments across the country were toppled, removed, or added to the agendas of countless city council meetings.

Brooke Leigh Howard

Race and Identity Reporter

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What Happened to All Those Racist Statues We Took Down?

Sell it to a rich golf resort owner? Put it in the incinerator? Cities are grappling with what to do with scores of toppled Confederate statues.

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Brooke Leigh Howard