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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."
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 ...
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The Confederate Monument was a memorial installed in Los Angeles' Hollywood Forever Cemetery, in the U.S. state of California, honoring all Confederates who had died or would die on the Pacific coast. Erected in 1925 in the Confederate section of the cemetery, it was removed in August 2017. [1]
Statues of two Confederate generals have been removed from their place of honor. Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson statues out in Charlottesville Skip to main content
The removal of the Confederate Memorial at the Arlington National Cemetery may proceed, a federal judge ruled Tuesday, after finding that groups who tried to halt it failed to prove that keeping ...