Elementary school removes murals showing Confederate flag and lynching (TN)
Updated Mar 6, 6:01 PM; Posted Mar 6, 6:01 PM
By Wilborn P. Nobles III wnobles@nola.com,
NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
Murals depicting the Confederate flag and the lynching of a white man were removed Friday (March 2) from a Tennessee elementary school amid growing concern over the content of the paintings, CNN reports.
The report says the murals, located in the gymnasium at South Cumberland Elementary in Crossville, Tennessee, were intended to depict an athletic team rivalry. One showed a man hanging from a rope tied to a tree branch dressed in a blue jersey, while another man, dressed in a red jersey, the school's color, looks on and carries a Confederate flag ...
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Who can forget the great athletic rivalries of Antietam and Gettysburg, or at the Edmund Pettus bridge?
