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The Confederate Memorial Park is a monument located in Tampa/ Brandon, Florida. The monument, which stands close to the intersection of I-4 and I-75 , featured a large Confederate battle flag , which can be seen from the intersection.
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."
The monument depicted in a postcard of the park. St. James Park in downtown Jacksonville was renamed Hemming Park in 1899 in honor of Civil War veteran Charles C. Hemming, after he installed the 62-foot (19 m)-tall Confederate monument in the park in 1898. [2] Hemming was born in Jacksonville.
The Confederate monument, also known as Old Joe, is a historic statue in Gainesville, Florida, in the United States.Designed by John Segesman, it was dedicated by the United Daughters of the Confederacy outside the Alachua County Administration Building in 1904.
A monument which remembers Confederate veterans, was erected by the Judah P. Benjamin Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. The monument, which has a Confederate flag etched on one ...
A Confederate statue that had been in a Florida park for more than a century was removed on Tuesday ahead of a protest demanding racial equality.
In June 2020, the Roanoke City Council voted to start the legal process to remove the monument and rename Lee Plaza after the July 1, 2020 date when a new state law removes the prohibition against removing monuments to the Confederate States of America.
In May 2018, the monument was cited among those targeted by the March for Change, a three-day, 40-mile (64-km) protest against Confederate monuments in Jacksonville and St. Augustine, Florida. [11] It is No. 10 on the Make It Right Project's list of Confederate memorials it wants to see removed. [11]