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Anti-Confederate protest changes location amid student safety concerns

Organizers of a counterprotest in response to the pro-Confederate rally planned for Saturday have moved their event from the Circle to the Jackson Avenue Center to ensure the safety of participants. Vice

February 20, 2019

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Students Against Social Injustice moves weekend conference to Memphis, plans campus protest for Friday

Circumstances surrounding the relocation of Students Against Social Injustice’s “United Students Against Sweatshops” national conference have shifted considerably in the last week. SASI officers initially planned to host a conference at the

February 19, 2019

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University administration, student groups respond to Confederate rally with forum, protests

University administration and student groups are responding to the neo-Confederate “Mississippi Stands Rally” scheduled for Saturday afternoon with events planned throughout the week and on the day of the event. Confederate 901

February 19, 2019

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Video and photo gallery: Ole Miss students protest Confederate statue on campus

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAL8TSK-qbM[/embedyt] A group of students and other community members marched through the Circle and the Lyceum on Wednesday in protest of the Confederate statue located in the center of campus.

November 30, 2018

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Opinion: Take down the plaque, take down the statue

The contextualization plaque in front of our school’s Confederate monument is an interesting commentary on university policy. The plaque discusses the history of such monuments erected across the South in the 20th

November 8, 2018

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Opinion: The University Greys: students, soldiers, sons of slaveholders

As secession fever swept the Slave South, young white men joined state militias en masse. By May 1861, only four months after Mississippi leaders declared secession, almost every student enrolled at the

October 20, 2017

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Truck plows into Confederate soldier statue on Ole Miss campus, damages contextual plaque

The most updated version of this article can be found here. A pickup truck plowed into the contextualization plaque in front of the Confederate soldier statue in the Circle sometime before 10:40

September 17, 2017

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