Washington and Lee University To Remove Confederate Flags

    Confederate Flag
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    A university agrees to take down Confederate flags.

    FOX News Radio’s Chris Foster reports:

    Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, removing Confederate battle flags from its chapel, named after General Robert E Lee.

    The Washington is George — who donated $20,000 to start the school in 1796. Lee’s name was added later.

    The school’s President announced in a letter, the flags would be removed, as demanded by a group of black law students.

    The letter also apologizes for the University’s ownership of about 80 slaves from 1826 to 1852. Some were used to build a dormitory on campus.

    Chris Foster, FOX News Radio.