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Renamed "Confederate Park" in 1923 at the request of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. A Confederate soldier statue was erected in 1910 at the intersection of North Main Avenue and West Capital Street adjacent to the Park. It was destroyed on July 16, 2016, when a policeman accidentally crashed his patrol car into the monument.
Confederate monument removed from plot in city-owned cemetery where Union and Confederate soldiers are buried. Monument has been the target of petitions for removal since 2017. [169] [170] Uptown Square Confederate Monument Lexington: North Carolina October 14 October 16 Removed at the request of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
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."
Figures on the Confederate statue include a Black woman depicted as “Mammy” and an enslaved man following his owner to […] The post Arlington National Cemetery to remove a slave-depicting ...
Crews work to remove the Confederate Soldiers & Sailors Monument in Libby Hill Park in in Richmond, Va. on July 8, 2020. ... for photos during the Black Women Matter "Say Her Name" march at the ...
The bronze elements of the statue were due to be removed by Friday, part of a wider removal of Confederate symbols from US military facilities set forth in a Department of Defense directive issued ...
In 1911, the Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument was dedicated at Greenlawn Cemetery during a Memorial Day service with around 300 people in attendance. [3] In 1919, Indiana Senator Harry Elliott Negley proposed that the monument be moved from its unsightly location to that of a public park; possibly University or Military Park. [ 4 ]
The memorial was erected in 1915, during the peak of Confederate monument-building, part of widespread campaigns to promote and justify Jim Crow laws in the South. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] A plaque says the memorial honors women of the Confederate states who "sacrificed their all upon their country's altar" during the Confederacy's 1861-65 war to ...