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The monument was vandalized with red paint on the night of June 29. Removal of monument began on October 26 with the removal of the 42 ft. monument's 8 ft. statue portion. [139] [140] [141] Henry County Confederate Monument McDonough: Georgia July 7 July 29 Removed by county commissions Disassembled, base still remains currently [142] [143]
The US Supreme Court ruled in favor of such monuments in 2005's Van Orden v. Perry. In 2009, Oklahoma State Representative Mike Ritze sponsored a bill to have a monument to the Ten Commandments installed at the capitol. His family supplied $10,000 to fund the monument, which was installed in late 2012. [40]
The Confederate Soldiers Monument, also known as the Confederate Dead Monument, is a Confederate memorial installed outside the Texas State Capitol in Austin, Texas. [1] [2] It was erected in 1903. Its sculpture was designed by Pompeo Coppini, and its base was designed by Frank Teich. [3] The sculpture was cast by Roman Bronze Works (New York ...
Despite claims that President-elect Donald Trump is a fascist, he does not fit the historical definition of the term, as he has not implemented institutional censorship or suppression of ...
The Monument to Confederate war soldiers was an outdoor Confederate memorial located outside of the Tarrant County Courthouse in Fort Worth, Texas. The memorial was funded by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1953. [1]
More than 1,400 monuments, street signs and plaques honouring fascism have been put online in the first nationwide attempt to document the symbols of Benito Mussolini's regime that still dot the ...
The monument was funded and erected in 1918 by the Katie Daffan Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, [4] and unveiled on June 3, the anniversary of Jefferson Davis's birthday. [2] At the unveiling ceremony, Texas State Senator James Robert Wiley told onlookers: Historians do not do them [Confederate soldiers] and their work justice.
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has condemned the removal of Confederate statues, saying he had a “visceral reaction against" the destruction of monuments honoring ...