Leaders at the Cathedral had begun to question the memorial to Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, which was installed in 1953, and its inclusion of what now-retired Reverend Gary Hall called "the primary symbol of a culture of white supremacy that we and all Americans of good will must repudiate."
Hall released a statement shortly after nine African American worshippers were murdered at a historic black church in Charleston in June 2015, and images emerged of alleged shooter Dylan Roof with the Confederate battle flag.
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