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The following monuments and memorials were removed during the George Floyd protests, mainly due to their connections to racism.The majority are in the United States and mostly commemorate the Confederate States of America (CSA), but some monuments were also removed in other countries, for example the statues of slave traders in the United Kingdom.
Robert E. Lee, a statue given to the National Statuary Hall by Virginia in 1909 (removed in favor of Barbara Rose Johns in 2020) [1]. The following is a partial list of monuments and memorials to Robert E. Lee, who served as General in Chief of the Armies of the Confederate States in 1865.
Monuments and memorials in the United States removed during the George Floyd protests (1 C, 108 P) Pages in category "Monuments and memorials removed during the George Floyd protests" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total.
Wilmington: In the early morning of June 25, 2020, in what has been described as a surprise move, the City of Wilmington removed the Confederate Memorial (1924) and the George Davis Monument (1911). The city's Twitter page posted at 5:28 a.m.: [372] "In accordance with NC law, the city has temporarily removed two monuments from the downtown ...
Safety fencing has been installed around the memorial, and officials antici. A Confederate memorial is to be removed from Arlington National Cemetery in northern Virginia in the coming days, part ...
Confederate monument-building has often been part of widespread campaigns to promote and justify Jim Crow laws in the South. [12] [13] According to the American Historical Association (AHA), the erection of Confederate monuments during the early 20th century was "part and parcel of the initiation of legally mandated segregation and widespread disenfranchisement across the South."
The claim: George Floyd statue removed from National Mall. A Jan. 25 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) claims a statue of George Floyd, the Black man whose death at the hands of a white ...
Pages in category "Monuments and memorials in the United States removed during the George Floyd protests" The following 108 pages are in this category, out of 108 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.