//160 Confederate symbols taken down in 2020, according to Southern Poverty Law Center

160 Confederate symbols taken down in 2020, according to Southern Poverty Law Center

When rioters tore through the U.S. Capitol last month, some of them gripping Confederate battle flags, they didn’t encounter a statue of the most famous rebel general, Robert E. Lee. The Lee statue, which represented the state of Virginia as part of the National Statuary Hall Collection in the Capitol for 111 years, had been removed just weeks before — one of at least 160