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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.
This category includes statues that were removed. Subcategories. This category has the following 13 subcategories, out of 13 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 ...
Pages in category "Monuments and memorials removed during the George Floyd protests" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Several sculptors have created multiple statues for the collection, the most prolific being Charles Henry Niehaus who sculpted eight statues currently and formerly in the collection. The US states that sent the statues, not Congress nor the Architect of the Capitol, are authorized to remove them. Kansas was the first state to replace a statue ...
It has been destroyed and re-erected once, and been the subject of both state and federal litigation. [ citation needed ] In June 2017 a monument with the Ten Commandments carved on it, that had been "plagued with controversy," [ citation needed ] was knocked down by a car and destroyed within 24 hours of being erected on the Arkansas State ...
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."
This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total. C. Removed Confederate States of America monuments and memorials ... Removed statues (13 C, 34 P)