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Karen L. Cox

Karen L. Cox

Karen L. Cox is professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She is the author of No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice (UNC Press, 2021) (Photo credit: Cass Bradley)

Stories from Karen L. Cox

Tuskegee history professor Frank Toland speaks to the gathered students at the base of the Confederate monument.

Black Protesters Have Been Rallying Against Confederate Statues for Generations

When Tuskegee student Sammy Younge, Jr., was murdered in 1966, his classmates focused their righteous anger on a local monument