Slavery posters causing uproar
NEW YORK CITY, N.Y., June 2 (UPI) -- Some New York high school students are voicing displeasure over removal of slavery posters placed to commemorate certain sites.
As part of a school project, the students placed posters at locations of major significance to the slave trade. But the posters were removed by the Alliance for Downtown New York.
Alliance spokesperson Bruce Brodoff told Newsday the removal was part of the group's goal to "keep downtown free of graffiti and illegal fliers."
The students from Law, Government and Community Service Magnet High School disagreed.
"There are no memorials to the victims of slavery in New York. When the Downtown Alliance took down our posters, they were erasing slavery from history again", senior Osele Clifford told the newspaper.
Alliance President Eric Deutsch said he is willing to discuss the creation of markers to recognize the history of slavery.
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