Mae Hazelton says that moving a Confederate statue into a government-owned building widely known for its racism and oppression against African Americans was just wrong.
Tavares, Florida As Mae Hazelton walked along West Main Street in Tavares, Florida, in her Sunday best, painful childhood memories took over her.
Now 65, she remembered seeing crosses burning in the distance and drinking from a water fountain with signs that read"colored" and"white only." As she approached the Old Lake County Courthouse, the fear she felt as a girl walking those same streets rushed through her body.The Old Lake County Courthouse stands a the center of the Confederate statue controversy. "I think about the Black men that were beaten there and tortured there," Hazelton said.
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