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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-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."
A controversial statue of a Confederate soldier has been taken down by officials from the center of a prominent square in Georgia, leading to protests in the area. The removal of the monument at ...
The monument was a bronze sculpture (not solid) of a male armed and uniformed Confederate soldier atop a granite base. [1] The plinth also held two lampposts and a pyramid of four cannonballs. The inscriptions on the base read [ a ] In memory of "The boys who wore the gray" on the front, This memorial erected by the people of Durham County on ...
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 ...
Protestors say they are still asking Williamson County commissioners to remove the statue of a Confederate soldier on the courthouse lawn.
Confederate Monument (Fort Worth, Texas) Confederate Monument (Hollywood Forever Cemetery) Confederate Monument in Louisville; Confederate Monument in Owensboro, Ky. (former) Confederate Soldier Memorial (Huntsville, Alabama) Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument (Baltimore) Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument (Birmingham, Alabama)
A federal lawsuit filed Tuesday seeks the removal of a Confederate monument marked as “in appreciation of our faithful slaves” from outside of a North Carolina county courthouse. The Concerned ...