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A Southern Poverty Law Center report shows 168 symbols of the Confederacy were removed nationwide in 2020, including 24 in North Carolina. (Emily Leayman/Patch)
NORTH CAROLINA More Confederate monuments were removed in 2020 across the United States than during the five previous years combined, the Southern Poverty Law Center said in its most recent Whose Heritage? report that tracks public displays related to the Confederacy.
Ninety-four of the 168 Confederate symbols removed or renamed nationwide in 2020 were monuments, the report found. Fifty-eight were removed from 2015 to 2019.
In North Carolina, 24 Confederate symbols were removed throughout 2020, according to the Law Center.
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In June 2020, six monuments for Confederate soldiers, two monuments to the Confederacy, two monuments for Henry Lawson Wyatt, one George Davis statue and a North Carolina Women of the Confederacy Monument were removed.