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1. NAACP members meet in Orange County, call for historical accuracy statewide

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Fri Aug 7, 2015, 12:15 PM

Aug 2015

AVISHAI HALEV | PUBLISHED 19 HOURS AGO

... Tyson noted only one side of North Carolina’s racial history gets monuments in the state — the Confederates.

“The notion that the Confederacy represents white North Carolina’s heritage is not historical but political,” Tyson said.

“This law is not about history as it is about current power arrangements.”

NAACP Field Secretary Laurel Ashton expanded upon Tyson’s remarks. “The lie of Southern heritage is more than just a lie — it’s a tool,” she said ...

http://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2015/08/naacp-members-meet-in-orange-county-call-for-historical-accuracy-statewide

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