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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.
[2] 17 statues have since then been removed and replaced. The National Statuary Hall Collection comprises 60 statues of bronze and 39 of marble . 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.
[7] [8] Alabama, Florida, Arkansas, and Virginia have passed resolutions to remove statues of individuals with Confederate ties, [9] [10] [11] although Alabama retained a second statue of a Confederate veteran. [12] North Carolina and Arkansas have authorized replacing statues of Jim Crow-era politicians with racist views. [11] [7]
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 ...
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. A Confederate statue that had been in a Florida ...
A proposal to remove the confederate women tribute was introduced to the Jacksonville City Council in 2021, but the Republican-controlled […] The post Jacksonville, Florida, mayor has ...
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 ...
A 1902 law in Virginia was repealed in 2020; other attempts to repeal state laws have not been successful. In 2023 Florida Republican Dean Black filed legislation that would punish any lawmakers who vote to remove "historical monuments and memorials." [68] Under this bill, if local lawmakers vote in favor of the removal of Confederate statues ...