Atlanta’s Confederate Advisory Committee Holds First Meeting

This statue of a Confederate soldier in Piedmont Park was vandalized with spray paint from protesters who marched through the city in August.

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Mayor Kasim Reed’s committee that will study what do with Confederate monuments and streets named after Confederate figures in Atlanta met for the first time Wednesday night.

The members voted Atlanta History Center CEO Sheffield Hale as the group’s chair.

Hale said he has high hopes for the committee.