23-06-2017 02:56 via baltimore.cbslocal.com

Calls For Confederate Marker To Be Removed From Md. Courthouse

SALISBURY, Md. (AP) — A petition is circulating to remove a marker commemorating a Confederate general from the lawn of a courthouse in Maryland.
James Yamakawa, co-founder of Showing Up For Racial Justice Delmarva, has started a petition on Change.org asking the county council to remove a marker honoring Gen. John Henry Winder from the historic Wicomico County Courthouse.
The Daily Times of Salisbury reports the courthouse is the site where slaves were kept before being auctione
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