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Texas Town Retains Confederate Monument Despite Civil Rights Activist’s 16 Years of Protest

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from Truth-Out:

Local civil rights leader Willie Hudspeth has faced down adversarial county judges and commissioners, irate bystanders – even assault rifles – throughout his more than 16-year campaign to remove a prominent monument to fallen Confederate soldiers in his northern Texas town of Denton.

Hudspeth, who serves as president of Denton’s local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), has called off-and-on since 1999 for the large statue in front of Denton County’s historic Courthouse on the Square to be removed. He has been joined in his efforts recently by student groups and other organizations working for racial justice – and by similar campaigns scrutinizing Confederate symbols across Texas and the US.

“I didn’t have any help in the beginning. No one was going down [to the County Commissioner’s Court] with me, so I just thought I would have to shut [the campaign] down for a while,” Hudspeth told Truthout from his local resale shop in Denton.

Hudspeth said he found renewed support for the statue’s removal in the aftermath of the racist massacre in June of nine worshippers by a white gunman at the historic Emanuel AME church in Charleston, South Carolina, and the subsequent removal of the Confederate battle flag from the state’s capitol grounds.

Read More @ Truth-Out.org

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