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AP: How Robert E. Lee went from hero to racist icon

AP - Confederate Army Gen. Robert E. Lee was vilified during the Civil War only to become a heroic symbol of the South's "Lost Cause" ? and eventually a racist icon.His transformation, at the center of the recent violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, reflects the changing moods in the United States around race, mythology and national reconciliation, historians say.Lee monuments, memorials and schools

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