Josh Shaffer, The Raleigh News and Observer – Five years ago, the Southern Poverty Law Center complied a list of  Confederate symbols across North Carolina, tallying 140 rebel monuments and markers in public spaces. They ranged from the soldier in Raleigh who stood atop a 75-foot obelisk to a square stone in Charlotte the size of a grave, which was repeatedly vandalized and covered in Plexiglas for its protection.

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