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durham county courthouse

from civil rights movement, american civil war posted in history

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510 south dillard st
durham, north carolina 27701

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Outside of the Durham County Courthouse, a statue was erected by the Daughters of the American Confederacy in 1924 to celebrate the soldiers of the Confederate South during the American Civil War.

The statue just kind of loomed there, in front of the institutional housing of regional justice, until August 14th, 2017.

On that day, a group of activists reacting to the events of Charlottesville, VA a couple days prior, took it upon themselves to remove the monument.

From The Atlantic: "In what might seem a blunt metaphor for the fate of Confederate symbols in progressive Southern cities like Durham, the statue tumbled down with barely any effort, crumpling at the feet of its imposing granite pedestal."

photo: Rodney Dunning @ flickr