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𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻 𝗟𝗲𝘄𝗶𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗮 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗻 𝗚𝗲𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗶𝗮

A statue of John Lewis, the civil rights leader and congressman, was installed on Friday in front of a Georgia county courthouse in a space occupied for more than 100 years by a Confederate memorial.

The 12-foot-tall bronze statue was placed in front of the DeKalb County Courthouse in Decatur, Ga., which was part of the congressional district that Mr. Lewis represented for 17 consecutive terms.

For years, activists pushed for the Confederate memorial, a 30-foot stone obelisk that had stood in the same spot as the new statue, to be removed. In 2019, a plaque was installed that said the memorial promoted white supremacy and the obelisk was removed in 2020...

The statue of Mr. Lewis, sculpted by the artist Basil Barrington Watson, who was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and moved to Georgia in 2002, will officially be unveiled on Aug. 24...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/18/us/john-lewis-statue-decatur-georgia.html

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