Atlanta Committee On Confederate Monuments To Hold Public Comment Session

A statue depicting a Confederate soldier in Atlanta’s Piedmont Park was vandalized during a protest in August. Across the country, the issue of what to do with Confederate monuments has been debated. An Atlanta committee will hold a public comment session on the issue Wednesday.

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The committee considering what to do with Atlanta’s Confederate monuments holds its first public comment session Wednesday night, and some members of the city’s civil rights community are ready to speak up.

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Richard Rose, president of the Atlanta chapter of the NAACP, plans to attend and share his thoughts.