Austin, TX Aug. 30, 2015: Attorney Kirby Lyon objects as a 1933 statue of Confederate leader Jefferson Davis is removed from University of Texas' South Mall Sunday after UT President Gregory Fenves cleared it to be placed in a campus museum along with a companion statue of President Woodrow Wilson. Recent racially-motivated shootings in the have called for reexamining some cultural icons of the Confederate South.

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Austin, Texas, USA. 30th August, 2015. A 1933 statue of Confederate leader Jefferson Davis is removed from University of Texas' South Mall Sunday after UT President Gregory Fenves cleared it to be placed in a campus museum along with a companion statue of President Woodrow Wilson. Recent racially-motivated shootings in the have called for reexamining some cultural icons of the Confederate South. © Bob Daemmrich/Alamy Live News

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