The Southern Poverty Law Center is speaking out against new executive orders from President Donald Trump aimed at restoring Confederate monuments and reshaping how U.S. history is taught.
SPLC Chief Strategy Officer Seth Levi called the orders an effort to rewrite history and obscure the real reasons these memorials were built.
“We have these debates about what’s the actual accurate history,” said Levi, “And in this case, with these Confederate monuments, we have the data and information that shows why and when they went up.”
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