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A commemoration of Jefferson Davis's birthday in 1938. The Houston Post, in a 1930 editorial published in newspapers around the country discussing the planned installation of the statue in Statuary Hall, stated "Justice to Jefferson Davis was long delayed, but it has been coming, and the placing of this statue in the nation's Capitol along with those of other great servants of the country ...
The Statue of Jefferson Davis was unveiled in the Kentucky State Capitol Rotunda, in Frankfort, Kentucky on December 10, 1936. It depicts Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America. It was erected under the auspices of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. [ 1] It remained there until June 13, 2020.
The vandalized statue of Robert Milligan outside the Museum of London Docklands before it was removed. The Albert Pike Memorial in Washington, D.C., after protesters toppled the statue of Pike. During the civil unrest [1] that followed the murder of George Floyd in May 2020, a number of monuments and memorials associated with racial injustice ...
A Kentucky commission voted Friday to take down a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis from the state Capitol, adding its voice to a global push to remove symbols of racism and slavery.
A Kentucky state committee has voted to remove a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis from the state Capitol building. In a near-unanimous vote on Friday, the state's Historic ...
Frankfort: Statue of Jefferson Davis, Kentucky Capitol Rotunda, 1936. (Jefferson Davis was born in Kentucky.) In 2015, the all-white [224] state Historic Properties Advisory Commission voted against removing the statue. [225] In 2017 several prominent Republicans called for its removal. [226] It was removed on June 13, 2020. [227] Lexington
A statue of Jefferson Davis stood in Memphis Park (originally, "Confederate Park" [8]) in Memphis, Tennessee. Removed in 2017. A large 351-foot (107 m) tall concrete obelisk at the Jefferson Davis State Historic Site in Fairview, Kentucky marks the site of his birthplace. Construction of the monument began in 1917 and finished in 1924 at a cost ...
"Slave owner" vandalism. Since at least 2003 the statue was the subject of frequent vandalism. [5] [6]After the Charleston church shooting in 2015, a concerted effort was launched to remove several monuments from public spaces in New Orleans, with Councilwoman LaToya Cantrell citing the Jefferson Davis Monument as "the one that really has some momentum around it."