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No Common Ground
- Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice
- Narrated by: David Sadzin
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
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Publisher's Summary
When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to preserve the statues, legal battles to remove them, and rowdy crowds taking matters into their own hands. These conflicts have raged for well over a century - but they've never been as intense as they are today.
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