Confederate soldier statue to get plaque explaining its history at Ole Miss [View all]

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Civil War and civil rights history to be explained instead of removing statue
By Scott Simmons
UPDATED 7:32 PM CDT Mar 14, 2016

... officials decided to keep the Confederate soldier statue displayed at the center of campus but add a plaque explaining why the school erected the statue in 1906.

The plaque will also explain how the statue became a rallying point during riots in 1962 tied to the admission of the first African-American student on campus ...

“I think they should (take the statue down) because there has been a lot of dispute about those things going on around here,” Natasha Bailey said ...

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