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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.
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 .
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 pair of statues honoring the Confederacy in Jacksonville’s Springfield Park were taken down Wednesday under the orders of the city’s mayor. “This is not in any way an attempt to erase ...
They say the statue presents a weak and servile image of Sacagawea." Its new home has not been decided, and as of December 1, 2019, it has not been removed. [155] Another statue, George Rogers Clark, Conqueror of the Northwest, "is dedicated to William Clark's older brother and stands on the University of Virginia campus. He is astride a horse ...
Robert E. Lee, a statue given to the National Statuary Hall by Virginia in 1909 (removed in favor of Barbara Rose Johns in 2020) [1]. The following is a partial list of monuments and memorials to Robert E. Lee, who served as General in Chief of the Armies of the Confederate States in 1865.
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 ...