(Reuters) - Municipal workers in Kansas City, Missouri, on Friday started dismantling a Confederate memorial that was vandalised earlier this month, the latest move to take down a Civil War symbol amid a fierce debate about race and the legacy of slavery in America.
A rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, by white nationalists opposed to plans to move a statue of a Confederate general there turned deadly on Aug. 12 when a man crashed a car into counter-protesters, killing one woman.
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