Petitions Launch for Chadwick Boseman Memorial to Replace Confederate Statue in His Hometown

Residents of Anderson, South Carolina want to erect a memorial in tribute of the "Black Panther" icon.

Aug 31, 2020

Several petitions have launched in the wake of Chadwick Boseman’s death urging the late actor’s hometown of Anderson, South Carolina to replace a Confederate statue with a memorial in honor of the “Black Panther” icon (via The Hill). One of the petitions boasts nearly 10,000 signatures and counting. The Confederate statue in question was erected in Boseman’s hometown in 1902. The statue depicts a Confederate soldier and is located in front of a courthouse. The statue reads: “The world shall yet decide, in truth’s clear, far-off light, that the soldiers who wore the gray, and died with Lee, were in the right.”

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