• A unanimous high court reversed a trial court's ruling that the statues were protected by a 1997 law protecting historical monuments. (nymag.com)
  • After years of civil rights activists calling for the removal of Confederate monuments, they're falling like dominoes amid nationwide protests in the wake of George Floyd's death in police custody. (go.com)
  • The removals followed announcements last week that Confederate monuments would be taken down from sites in Indianapolis, Richmond and Alexandria, Virginia, and Birmingham, Alabama. (go.com)
  • Hundreds of Confederate monuments litter the state, and current law forbids localities from tearing them down or moving them. (wonkette.com)
  • As the United States confronts the fate of Confederate monuments, there is much to learn from these statues and columns and obelisks. (forbes.com)
  • Today, the monuments are central in a fraught conversation about idealizing historical figures who also worked to uphold slavery and racist practices - much like the various monuments to the Confederate States of America and its leaders. (oxygen.com)
  • As protestors tear down statues, state officials are also working to take down monuments to figures criticized as racist. (oxygen.com)
  • As President Trump doubled down on his defense of Confederate statues and monuments this week, he overlooked an important fact noted by historians: The majority of the memorials seem to have been built with the intention not to honor fallen soldiers, but specifically to further ideals of white supremacy. (kbia.org)
  • More than 30 cities either have removed or are removing Confederate monuments, according to a list compiled by The New York Times , and the president said Thursday that in the process, the history and culture of the country was being "ripped apart. (kbia.org)
  • Groups like the Sons of Confederate Veterans defend the monuments, arguing they are an important part of history. (kbia.org)
  • The most recent comprehensive study of Confederate statues and monuments across the country was published by the Southern Poverty Law Center last year. (kbia.org)
  • A portion of the Southern Poverty Law Center's graph showing when Confederate monuments and statues were erected across the country. (kbia.org)
  • James Grossman, the executive director of the American Historical Association, says that the increase in statues and monuments was clearly meant to send a message. (kbia.org)
  • Statues and monuments are often seen as long-standing, permanent fixtures, but such memorabilia take effort, planning and politics to get placed, especially on government property. (kbia.org)
  • Many towns and cities around the nation have been removing Confederate Monuments after racial tensions heightened around the country. (waka.com)
  • MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - The Alabama Supreme Court has upheld a state law barring cities from moving or altering Confederate monuments. (waka.com)
  • An attempt by some Virginia residents to stop the removal of some Confederate monuments in Charlottesville, Virginia. (techdirt.com)
  • RICHMOND, Va. - A judge issued an injunction Thursday barring the city of Richmond from removing any more Confederate monuments, a process that began last week after Mayor Levar Stoney ordered the statues cleared away amid weeks of protests over police brutality and racism. (clickorlando.com)
  • At first glance, the statue might seem an odd addition to the bright lights and bustle of New York's flashiest hub, an antiquated relic of a time when prominent men were memorialized with equestrian monuments. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • Though the statue, titled "Rumors of War," made its debut in Times Square, it will soon head to Richmond, Virginia-where it will serve as a direct challenge to the Confederate monuments that line one of the city's famed thoroughfares. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • And as Debbie noted, a contractor who was initially hired to remove Confederate monuments in New Orleans pulled out "after employees received death threats and his car was torched. (upr.org)
  • Fourteen are schools named after Confederate generals, 16 are roadways, and 19 are monuments. (splcenter.org)
  • Removing Confederate Monuments Doesn't 'Erase' History. (time.com)
  • T he aftermath of Charlottesville has sparked a national debate about Confederate monuments and their place in society, an argument often hinged upon the question of whether removing them equates to "changing" or "erasing" history. (time.com)
  • Even President Trump chimed in this week with a red-herring argument regarding whether monuments of George Washington or Thomas Jefferson should be removed along with Confederate statues. (time.com)
  • Concern about erasing history by eliminating Confederate monuments is ironic considering most of them tell a false version of the history they were built to preserve. (time.com)
  • Confederate monuments - most of them built decades after the war - don't tell the real story. (time.com)
  • Most of the South's Confederate monuments were erected at the start of the 20th century, a time when false Lost Cause ideology had taken root as a way to rationalize the Southern fight and defeat. (time.com)
  • A century later, that story persists in many ways, creating yet another false narrative that preserving Confederate monuments is crucial to understanding its history. (time.com)
  • But there's no convincing argument against finding more suitable places for Confederate monuments to serve that purpose and no reason why a false account of history should remain mounted in reverence at a public park or outside a courthouse or at the entrance of campus at a public university. (time.com)
  • Reassessing the placement of Confederate monuments has nothing to do with changing history and everything to do with making sure we're on the right side of it. (time.com)
  • Sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments. (buzzfeednews.com)
  • The woke mob is bent on replacing all Confederate monuments in the United States. (worldtribune.com)
  • In Louisiana and Tennessee, the mob seeks to replace the offending monuments and erect statues of celebrities such as Britney Spears and Dolly Parton. (worldtribune.com)
  • Petitioners in Louisiana and Tennessee want statues of Britney Spears and Dolly Parton to replace the states' Confederate monuments. (worldtribune.com)
  • A petition was started in Louisiana calling for the state's officials to "do the right thing" and replace Confederate monuments with statues dedicated to "an actual Louisiana hero and influential human being, Britney Spears. (worldtribune.com)
  • Pelosi dismissed the Confederate statues in the U.S. Capitol as "monuments to men who advocated cruelty and barbarism to achieve such a plainly racist end. (worldtribune.com)
  • CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story drew too strong a link between the effort to take down Confederate statues and monuments and Noem's remarks. (legalinsurrection.com)
  • Confederate monuments taken down in Richmond will likely be moved to a black history museum and cultural center, Virginia officials have said. (bellenews.com)
  • An imposing statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee that was removed in September is expected to be among the monuments being transferred. (bellenews.com)
  • The collection includes monuments to a number of other prominent Confederate figures - including former Confederate president Jefferson Davis - as well as a ceremonial cannon and a monument to Confederate soldiers and sailors. (bellenews.com)
  • Mayor Stoney ordered that the city's remaining Confederate monuments, including a 21 ft statue of Robert E. Lee erected in 1890, be removed amid national protests over the murder of George Floyd. (bellenews.com)
  • CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia - Advocates in Charlottesville, Virginia are working to remove the city's Confederate statues before the four-year anniversary of the deadly rally later this summer. (10news.com)
  • In Charlottesville, at this moment, it's particularly important because we have had violence around these statues. (10news.com)
  • This year, both a Virginia Supreme Court ruling and a law passed in the legislature cleared the way for the city of Charlottesville to remove the Confederate statues. (10news.com)
  • The Lee statue in particular was the focal point of the notorious Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in August of 2017, during which counter-protester Heather Heyer was killed. (nymag.com)
  • After the deadly August rally (punctuated by then-president Donald Trump's "very fine people, on both sides" comment ), the city of Charlottesville hung black tarps over the Lee and Jackson statues. (nymag.com)
  • Ditto for "Silent Sam" in Chapel Hill and the Lee statue in Charlottesville. (latimes.com)
  • Spectators watch as workers remove a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee from Market Street Park July 10, 2021 in Charlottesville, Virginia. (axios.com)
  • Heavy machinery hoisted the statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee from its stone pedestal in Charlottesville, Virginia, around 8 a.m. Saturday morning, AP reports . (axios.com)
  • Taking down this statue is one small step closer to the goal of helping Charlottesville, Virginia, and America, grapple with the sin of being willing to destroy Black people for economic gain,' Charlottesville Mayor Nikuyah Walker said in a speech when the removal process started, per AP. (axios.com)
  • Although Lopez did not mention President Trump, the 12 August 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, or the controversy over the removal of Confederate statues in his Facebook post, the timing of the photograph caused several outlets to post hot takes of the incident. (snopes.com)
  • Lopez told the Chicago Sun Times that the statue was vandalized in the days following the rally in Charlottesville, but this has not been confirmed. (snopes.com)
  • After the violence in Charlottesville, Va., when a counterprotester was killed while demonstrating, and the action in Durham, N.C., where a crowd pulled down a Confederate statue themselves , the mayor of Baltimore ordered that city to remove its statues in the dead of night. (kbia.org)
  • A Virginia judge has blocked efforts by Charlottesville city leaders to remove the Confederate statue at the center of the deadly white supremacist violence in the city in 2017. (huffpost.com)
  • Judge Richard Moore of Charlottesville Circuit Court ruled Friday that removing the statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee would violate a state law protecting war memorials, The Daily Progress reported . (huffpost.com)
  • The statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee stands in downtown Charlottesville, Virginia. (huffpost.com)
  • Charlottesville city council voted in 2017 to remove the two statues which they criticized as being vestiges of a racist time. (huffpost.com)
  • The fact that certain Charlottesville residents are unaware of the statues' history does not change that history or the messages the statues send," the lawyers added. (huffpost.com)
  • City workers preparing to drape a tarp over the statue of Confederate general Stonewall Jackson in Justice park in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Aug. 23, 2017. (huffpost.com)
  • Signs calling for renaming Lee Park to Heyer Park, the site where white supremacists and Nazis gathered last Saturday, lay at the base of the Robert E. Lee statue after Heather Heyer was murdered, in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Aug. 16, 2017. (time.com)
  • And after the violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, he says it's probably time for Confederate statues to go. (texasstandard.org)
  • When I finished writing "Managing White Supremacy," I thought about writing a book on Confederate statues and memorials, but ultimately decided I didn't want to spend the next six to eight years of my life immersed in the subject (instead, I turned to reapportionment and the Supreme Court's "one person, one vote" decisions of the 1960s). (latimes.com)
  • Later in the afternoon, Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry announced all Confederate memorials in the city would be removed. (go.com)
  • Maine Gov. Paul LePage said Thursday that removing statues honoring Confederate soldiers is "just like" taking down 9/11 memorials, The Washington Post reported. (thedailybeast.com)
  • But not everything's been rosy, particularly when it comes to gun safety, and now there's some tedious pushback about Confederate memorials. (wonkette.com)
  • One of those Republicans, freshman lawmaker Sen. Jennifer Kiggans, claimed it was 'divisive and not healing' to even consider removing Confederate memorials. (wonkette.com)
  • In Grūtas Park, some eighty miles outside of Vilnius, statues of Lenin and Stalin stand proud amidst memorials to the founders of Lithuanian Communism. (forbes.com)
  • Work to remove the Confederate tributes that dot this former capital of the Confederacy began on July 1, the day a new state law took effect granting local authorities control over war memorials on their property. (clickorlando.com)
  • Like other locations across America , Richmond is "locked in a struggle over what to do with [Confederate] memorials," Nyerges adds. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • report, there are currently 76 live Confederate memorials scattered across the state of Florida. (splcenter.org)
  • Memorials to leaders of the pro-slavery, Confederate states in the southern US have been controversial. (bellenews.com)
  • Seven Confederate symbols were removed from Florida's public spaces in 2021 , ranking third in the US for removals. (splcenter.org)
  • House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has demanded the removal of Confederate statues occupying the U.S. Capitol. (worldtribune.com)
  • The legal maneuvering over the City of Charlottesville's efforts to take down statues of Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson appears to have ended with a Virginia Supreme Court decision giving the city a greenlight to proceed. (nymag.com)
  • Another Confederate statue, one of of Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, is also set to be taken down, AP notes. (axios.com)
  • We can bury the statues of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson - literally put them under dirt - with tombstone epitaphs composed by the descendants of those they oppressed. (forbes.com)
  • LEXINGTON, Va. - The Virginia Military Institute has removed a prominent statue of Confederate Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson. (wcpo.com)
  • Why would you put a statue of Robert E. Lee or Stonewall Jackson in 1948 in Baltimore? (kbia.org)
  • Virginia Judge Richard Moore said the statues of Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson were protected under a historic preservation law. (huffpost.com)
  • Moore issued a permanent injunction to prevent the removal of both Lee's statue and also a separate monument to Confederate general Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson which city leaders had also hoped to take down. (huffpost.com)
  • J.E.B. Stuart and Stonewall Jackson, and Confederate naval commander and scientist Matthew Fontaine Maury. (clickorlando.com)
  • During Thursday's hearing, lawyers for Stoney said all the city's Confederate statues have been removed in recent days, with the exception of one of A.P. Hill, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported. (clickorlando.com)
  • Statues of Confederate leaders Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis are targeted for removal in New Orleans, after a federal appeals court approved the city's plan to change how it treats symbols of its history. (upr.org)
  • This is well overdue,' Zyahna Bryant, a student who in 2016 started the push to remove confederate statues from the city. (axios.com)
  • As a Southerner who grew up revering Confederate generals such as Lee and whose ancestors fought for the Confederacy, I wish you could see a broader point of view. (latimes.com)
  • PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) - Some say statues of confederate generals and the confederate flag are racist because they represent a group of people who pushed for white supremacy, but others say its history. (centralillinoisproud.com)
  • Grouped in this conversation are confederate statues honoring southern generals who risked their lives to keep their way of life. (centralillinoisproud.com)
  • Who erects a statue of former Confederate generals on the very heels of fighting and winning a war for democracy? (kbia.org)
  • The statues, which honor soldiers and leaders on the losing side of the Civil War, are seen by many as symbols of racism and oppression. (go.com)
  • It, like five other confederate symbols, is now in temporary storage. (nbc12.com)
  • In the wake of shootings of people of color across the country and increased movement toward removing of confederate symbols in other cities, Porter said it is time for Orlando to take action that will make its own landscape more inclusive. (wmfe.org)
  • After years of little change, a growing number of these Confederate symbols are being removed, prompted by nationwide protests against police brutality and racism that appear to have inspired a profound shift in American thinking. (clickorlando.com)
  • For instance, arguments over the inclusion of Confederate symbols in the state flag of Mississippi are scheduled to be heard today in the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. (upr.org)
  • Some particularly dishonest news sites like the Washington Post falsely claimed Trump's speech was a "harsh denunciation of the racial justice movement," and an attempt at "preserv[ing] Confederate symbols and the legacy of white domination. (legalinsurrection.com)
  • On Monday evening, the University of Alabama announced that it will remove three plaques dedicated to Confederate soldiers who attended the school. (go.com)
  • Meanwhile, Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett acknowledged the current protests in his decision to remove a monument dedicated to Confederate soldiers who died at a prison camp. (go.com)
  • James Scillinglaw, a member of Sons of Confederate Soldiers, said the Confederate flag has been hijacked by hate groups, arguing it is not inherently a hateful symbol. (wuft.org)
  • The Eastville monument was dedicated to the Confederate soldiers of both Northampton and Accomack counties. (easternshorepost.com)
  • WASHINGTON - An independent commission is recommending that the Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery be dismantled and taken down, as part of its final report to Congress on the renaming of military bases and assets that commemorate the Confederacy. (wtvr.com)
  • Ever since 1992, members of the DC Council have been calling on the federal gov't to remove the statue of Confederate Albert Pike (a federal memorial on federal land). (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • Rep. Warren Love's GOP legislative colleagues are also condemning the Osceola Republican after he posted his reaction to the news that someone threw paint on a Confederate memorial at the Springfield National Cemetery. (kcur.org)
  • Lukeman had previously contributed to the construction of Confederate memorial Stone Mountain in Georgia. (wikipedia.org)
  • As in similar cases, the removal of the statues does no damage to the history of the Confederacy, which lives on in museums and books. (nymag.com)
  • That's why the statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee in Richmond, the capital of the Confederacy, should be removed, Gov. Ralph Northam said last Thursday. (go.com)
  • was painted overnight on the base of the statue, which honors school alumni who fought for the Confederacy and died in the Civil War. (wral.com)
  • The pedestal features 14 shields, engraved with the coats of arms of the 13 Confederate states and Maryland, which didn't secede or join the Confederacy. (wtvr.com)
  • The confederate flag, also known as the stars and bars, was the first national flag of the confederacy. (centralillinoisproud.com)
  • The legislation, H.R.3005 , would direct the architect of the Capitol to identify and remove all statues and busts that depict members of the Confederacy from public display within 45 days of the resolution's enactment. (wyso.org)
  • Among the Confederate statues, there is a statue of Jefferson Davis , president of the Confederacy, displayed in Statuary Hall. (wyso.org)
  • The Confederate statue that has stood on the Bentonville square for over 100 years will soon be moved to a private park, according to a statement from the Arkansas Division United Daughters of the Confederacy. (fayettevilleflyer.com)
  • When Payne brought the issue of the Confederate monument to the attention of Northampton supervisors via letter about one year ago, as a wave of Black Lives Matter protests washed across the nation, a debate began between two groups - but they were not supporters of the historic Union or Confederacy. (easternshorepost.com)
  • The Confederate veterans joined the Daughters of the Confederacy in funding the Confederate monument in Eastville, which was raised in 1913. (easternshorepost.com)
  • In calling for the lynching of those who vandalized a Confederate statute in Springfield, state Rep. Warren Love invoked a form of political violence used throughout the South to keep African-Americans subjugated for generations following the fall of the Confederacy, and for that he must resign. (kcur.org)
  • A Richmond police officer stand by the statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis after it was pulled down off of it's pedestal on Monument Avenue in Richmond, VA on June 10, 2020. (oxygen.com)
  • Late Wednesday night in Richmond, Virginia, protestors topped a statue dedicated to Confederate President Jefferson Davis, according to NPR . (oxygen.com)
  • Days after a state district judge gave the go-ahead, the University of Texas at Austin plans to remove a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis from a plaza on campus Sunday. (texastribune.org)
  • The statue of Jefferson Davis, once president of the Confederate States, stands just south of the Main Building on UT's campus on June 22, 2015. (texastribune.org)
  • A statue of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States from 1861-1865, is on display in Statuary Hall inside the U.S. Capitol. (wyso.org)
  • A later statue of Confederate president Jefferson Davis was "widely understood to be a symbol of defiant racism, the architectural equivalent of a burning cross," Lewis adds. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • Discussing the emotional impact of the historic oppression represented by the statues' prominence, she told Memphis Flyer reporter Chris Davis, "I can't think, outside of Native Americans, another group of people that are told to just take it. (nonprofitquarterly.org)
  • Even if the statues of Lee and Davis are removed, their names are embroidered into the geography of New Orleans: Lee's statue is in Lee Circle, and Davis' is on the parkway that was named after him. (upr.org)
  • Another note: This tweet is a joke and does not actually depict a statue of Jefferson Davis. (buzzfeednews.com)
  • A statue of John H. Reagan - Postmaster General under Confederate President Jefferson Davis - is removed from the South Mall of the UT Austin campus early Monday morning. (texasstandard.org)
  • The State of Mississippi commissioned Henry Augustus Lukeman to sculpt statues of Jefferson Davis and James Z. George to be presented as Mississippi's first contributions to the National Statuary Hall's collection. (wikipedia.org)
  • Lukeman's statues of Davis and George were presented and unveiled on June 2, 1931 in a ceremony held in Statuary Hall in the United States Capitol. (wikipedia.org)
  • Adele Hayes-Davis, Jefferson Davis's great-granddaughter, officially unveiled the statue of Jefferson Davis. (wikipedia.org)
  • Wilson also read a March 10, 1884 speech that Davis gave to the Mississippi Legislature in its entirety, as well as a passage from Davis's book, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government. (wikipedia.org)
  • Harrison also addressed Mississippi's delay in placing statues in Statuary Hall: There never has been a day since [Mississippi] received the nation's gracious invitation when the slightest doubt was entertained that her first choice among all the array of distinguished and illustrious characters to occupy a place here would be Jefferson Davis. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the lead up to the unveiling of the Davis and George statues, The Atlanta Constitution published an editorial describing Jefferson Davis as "a chief apostle of southern sentiments and aspirations" and a "martyr and immortal" "who sacrificed splendidly. (wikipedia.org)
  • Since the decision involves an interpretation of state law, it's unlikely there will be any further recourse for the pro-statue litigants, whose group includes members of a chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. (nymag.com)
  • The statues' removal has been vehemently fought by the southern heritage group Sons of Confederate Veterans. (texastribune.org)
  • In January of this year, a judge ordered that Memphis Greenspace enter into mediation with the Sons of Confederate Veterans, who called the statues' removal unlawful, about what to do with the statues. (nonprofitquarterly.org)
  • Chris Herrington at the Commercial Appeal noted that the state historical commission, which initially denied Memphis' request to lawfully remove the statues, is "populated by members of the fringe Sons of Confederate Veterans," which seems like an inherent conflict of interest. (nonprofitquarterly.org)
  • Beauregard Camp No. 130, a Sons of Confederate Veterans group whose formation in 1899 predates the Beauregard Monument's unveiling in 1915. (upr.org)
  • McCarthy said he supports the removal of Confederate statues and repeatedly noted that the racist lawmakers and leaders they depict were then members of the Democratic Party. (wyso.org)
  • I have spent many hours doing research at the Virginia Historical Society in Richmond (now the Virginia Museum of History & Culture), which sits right next to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and I am all too familiar with the odious statues along Monument Avenue. (latimes.com)
  • RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) - The landscape along Richmond's Monument Avenue is very different with the J.E.B. Stuart statue now off its pedestal. (nbc12.com)
  • Tuesday's removal marks the fact that all city-owned Confederate statues along Monument Avenue are gone. (nbc12.com)
  • JEB Stuart statue on Monument Avenue. (nbc12.com)
  • The 22-foot bronze equestrian statue went up on Richmond's Monument Avenue in 1907, a time when white leaders across the South sought to glorify the 'lost cause' of the Civil War and suppress attempts by Black people to achieve equality. (nbc12.com)
  • Stuart's statue stood since 1907 at the intersection of Lombardy Street and Monument Avenue. (nbc12.com)
  • EDS NOTE: OBSCENITY - Workers remove the statue of Confederate Naval officer Matthew Fontaine Maury on Monument Avenue Thursday July 2, 2020, in Richmond, Va. Maury was better known for his work in oceanography and other sciences before the Civil War. (clickorlando.com)
  • Also Thursday, Nolan said that family members of Black humanitarian and tennis legend Arthur Ashe have requested that his statue be removed from Richmond's prestigious Monument Avenue. (clickorlando.com)
  • Richmond's largest statue left intact is on state land - a massive monument to Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee on Monument Avenue. (clickorlando.com)
  • Rumors of War," in fact, directly references a statue of the Confederate general J.E.B. Stuart on Richmond's Monument Avenue , recently re-christened Arthur Ashe Boulevard in honor of the African-American tennis great. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • Heritage is powerful, and if you think taking down Confederate statues will ultimately help the problem with systemic racism in the South, you fail to see the importance of the heritage we grew up respecting. (latimes.com)
  • Protesters toppled the only statue of a Confederate general in the nation's capital and set it on fire on Juneteenth, the day marking the end of slavery in the United States, amid continuing anti-racism demonstrations following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • Around 9:45 a.m. Monday, a crane plucked the statue off its base and slowly hoisted it away at the public military college in Lexington, where allegations of systemic racism roiled the campus this fall. (wcpo.com)
  • Pop star Taylor Swift asked her fellow Tennesseans for help to "retroactively change the status of people who perpetuated hideous patterns of racism from 'heroes' to 'villains' " by removing statues of Edward Carmack and Nathan Bedford Forrest, two pro-slavery figures. (worldtribune.com)
  • I prayerfully anticipate that we could come together, Democrats and Republicans, to reject hatred and racism, and to make it clear through a strong bipartisan vote that the statues of these individuals have no place in our Capitol. (rev.com)
  • There is currently a second and completely separate statue-related legal case pending before the Virginia Supreme Court, which stems from efforts by Governor Ralph Northam to remove a much larger Lee statue from state property in Richmond. (nymag.com)
  • People visit a monument of Confederate general Robert E. Lee after Virginia Governor Ralph Northam ordered its removal after widespread civil unrest following the death in Minneapolis police custody of George Floyd, in Richmond, Va. June 5, 2020. (go.com)
  • This was the third statue to be torn down by protestors in Richmond, following the toppling of a statue of Confederate General Williams Carter Wickham and a statue of Christopher Columbus. (oxygen.com)
  • The fundamental reason I'm here is to show my support to the POC (persons of color) community in Richmond and to show that I empathize with the reason that the statue is coming down," Will Davenport, who lives near the area. (nbc12.com)
  • Richmond was the capital of the Confederate states during the US Civil War. (bellenews.com)
  • Plans to remove the Lee statue were initially delayed by two separate lawsuits by Richmond residents opposed to its removal. (bellenews.com)
  • President Donald Trump quickly tweeted about the toppling, calling out D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and writing: "The DC police are not doing their job as they watched a statue be ripped down and burn. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • Yet many historians say the argument about preserving Southern history doesn't hold up when you consider the timing of when the "beautiful" statues, as Trump called them, went up. (kbia.org)
  • TRUMP: We must respect and honor our beautiful statues! (buzzfeednews.com)
  • The lawsuit asked for an emergency injunction to halt the removal of the statues and alleged that Stoney violated state law by ordering their immediate removal. (clickorlando.com)
  • Stoney said he was invoking his emergency powers to immediately remove the statues instead of following a lengthy process outlined in the law. (clickorlando.com)
  • Protesters then set a bonfire and stood around it in a circle as the statue burned, chanting, "No justice, no peace! (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • The Confederate monument has stood outside the courthouse for more than a century. (wlox.com)
  • By Stefanie Jackson - The Confederate monument in Eastville has been removed and the watch of the stone-faced soldier who stood atop a lofty pedestal, guarding the historic Northampton County Courthouse Green, has come to an end after more than 100 years. (easternshorepost.com)
  • Bill Payne, of Cape Charles, stood in the sweltering heat across the street from the courthouse green the morning of Aug. 26 to witness the descent of the Confederate soldier statue as it was slowly lowered to the ground by a crane. (easternshorepost.com)
  • The lawsuit alleges that the plaintiff, 69-year-old William C. Gregory, would face "irreparable harm" if the statue were removed. (clickorlando.com)
  • The court said plaintiffs in the case hadn't proven their argument that removing the statues would bring irreparable harm. (upr.org)
  • The statue, dedicated in 1901, was located in Judiciary Square about half a mile from the U.S. Capitol. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • The House of Representatives on Tuesday voted to remove all Confederate statues from public display in the U.S. Capitol, along with replacing the bust of former Chief Justice of the United States Roger Taney, author of the 1857 Dred Scott decision that declared that people of African descent were not U.S. citizens. (wyso.org)
  • Any removed statue that was provided to the Capitol by a state would be returned to the state, which could then elect to replace it with another honoree. (wyso.org)
  • TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - A state representative who opposed removing a statue of a Confederate general representing Florida in the U.S. Capitol is now blocking its replacement, apparently because he isn't happy Walt Disney won't be standing in its place. (wtxl.com)
  • The woke celebrity continued: "Edward Carmack's statue was sitting in the state Capitol until it was torn down last week in the protests. (worldtribune.com)
  • Charlottesviile's Robert E. Lee statue during the deadly Unite the Right rally in 2017. (nymag.com)
  • Two opposing Facebook events surfaced: one called "Battle Flag Rally: Stop Southern Cultural Genocide," the other, "Save the Confederate Statue! (wuft.org)
  • A few months later, white nationalists held a "Unite the Right" rally in the city, in part to protest the removal of Lee's statue. (huffpost.com)
  • Was a Bust of Abraham Lincoln Vandalized in Chicago in Protest of Confederate Statues? (snopes.com)
  • Protesters who wanted the statue to remain, like Scillinglaw, hovered at the peripheries of the protest, displaying flags and Southern paraphernalia - including a horse outfitted in period-appropriate gear. (wuft.org)
  • Steven Ingram, spokesperson for the Florida League of the South, said members outside of Gainesville heard about the protest from a local member and came to support the statue. (wuft.org)
  • Workers remove a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee from Market Street Park July 10. (axios.com)
  • She authored the original petition to take down the Robert E. Lee Statue in 2016. (10news.com)
  • Workers remove a Confederate monument, June 1, 2020, in Birmingham, Ala., after demonstrators failed to knock it down during protests over the death of George Floyd at Linn Park. (go.com)
  • The vandalized statue of Christopher Columbus in Christopher Columbus Park in the North End neighborhood of Boston, MA on on June 10, 2020. (oxygen.com)
  • The statue, once done, will sit in the same spot as the Confederate Obelisk Monument in Decatur Square that was taken down in June 2020. (yahoo.com)
  • PALATKA, Fla. - On Tuesday, the Southern Poverty Law Center raised a billboard in support of the Putnam Alliance For Equity and Justice , which has been advocating for the removal of a Confederate monument from the entrance to the Putnam County Courthouse since 2020. (splcenter.org)
  • Dr. Arthur Carter in August 2020 had suggested a compromise: leaving in place the monument of the Confederate soldier, who appears European, and building alongside it a monument of equal size of an African American Union soldier. (easternshorepost.com)
  • The same trial-court ruling that prevented the removal of the statues also ordered removal of the tarps. (nymag.com)
  • Statues of Christopher Columbus have also been targeted. (go.com)
  • The argument has made its way to Peoria, and although there are no Confederate statues, there is one of Christopher Columbus. (centralillinoisproud.com)
  • For the second time six weeks, vandals have spray-painted the "Silent Sam" statue on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus. (wral.com)
  • Republican Gov. Eric Greitens and Democratic elected officials are calling for a Republican lawmaker from southwest Missouri to step down after he posted on Facebook that people who defaced a Confederate statue should be "hung from a tall tree with a long rope. (kcur.org)
  • In 1864, Congress passed legislation that invited each state to contribute two statues of prominent citizens for permanent display in the former meeting hall of the U.S. House of Representatives, which was renamed National Statuary Hall. (wikipedia.org)
  • Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam has ordered the removal of a massive monument to Confederate General Robert E. Lee that currently sits on state-owned land "as soon as possible," NPR previously reported . (oxygen.com)
  • This comes after the City Council unanimously voted to remove the statues. (10news.com)
  • When I was on council, we also voted to remove the statues. (10news.com)
  • District One Supervisor Beverly Martin and District Four Supervisor Kent Jones both voted to remove the statue from its current location. (wlox.com)
  • The board has been discussing the removal of the monument since June, which is also when legislators voted to remove the Confederate battle flag emblem from Mississippi's state flag. (wlox.com)
  • But unlike the commission's recommendations earlier this year laying out new names for nine Army bases, there were no suggested names for the roughly 1,100 assets across the military that bear Confederate names. (wtvr.com)
  • Acknowledging the monument as being a historical statue, Martin said one of her family members fought in the Confederate Army. (wlox.com)
  • A statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee is seen behind work-zone signage in Market Street Park July 9. (axios.com)
  • A flatbed truck carries a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee from the Market Street Park July 10. (axios.com)
  • The former Confederate general was also a longtime influential leader of the Freemasons, who revere Pike and who paid for the statue. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • He also added that he opposed the Battle of Memphis Park name as well, since he said the battle was fought in the water, and the park was named for confederate veterans who held reunions at that park. (wreg.com)
  • For nearly a century, the inscription on the Confederate statue that sits in front of the Putnam County Courthouse reminds passersby that 'The Principles For Which They Fought Will Live Eternally. (splcenter.org)
  • Nearly all of his grandfathers in the Civil War era joined the Confederate military cause, and for a long time, Merian believed they fought to preserve states' rights and the Southern way of life. (texasstandard.org)
  • A statue of Taney in on the grounds of the Maryland State House was removed in 2017 after standing for nearly 145 years. (wyso.org)
  • Local residents filed a lawsuit in March 2017 to stop the city from dismantling the statues. (huffpost.com)
  • Hill's remains are interred beneath the statue, which sits in the middle of a traffic circle. (clickorlando.com)
  • The amended complaint lays out in greater detail the family history of the plaintiff - a descendant of a couple who were among the grantors of the land the statue now sits on, which eventually became state property. (clickorlando.com)
  • The statue, unveiled in 1914, features a bronze woman, crowned with olive leaves, standing on a 32-foot pedestal, and was designed to represent the American South. (wtvr.com)
  • Cheering demonstrators jumped up and down as the 11-foot (3.4-meter) statue of Albert Pike - wrapped with chains - wobbled on its high granite pedestal before falling backward, landing in a pile of dust. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • Statue has been lifted off the pedestal. (wcpo.com)
  • Some sites where statues have been removed still contain a pedestal or remnants of the larger monument. (clickorlando.com)
  • The statue of a Confederate soldier departs its pedestal above the historic courthouse green in Eastville Aug. 26. (easternshorepost.com)
  • As I watched the statue being removed from its pedestal I thought of my friends who didn't agree that the statue was out of place," he said in an email Aug. 31. (easternshorepost.com)
  • Earlier this week in Boston, another statue of Columbus was beheaded by protestors, according to Masslive.com . (oxygen.com)
  • HAPPENING NOW: Protestors are kneeling in prayer at the Confederate statue in Portsmouth. (whsv.com)
  • FYI, he was a white supremacist newspaper editor who published pro-lynching editorials and incited the arson of the office of Ida B. Wells (who actually deserves a hero's statue for her pioneering work in journalism and civil rights). (worldtribune.com)
  • Both, in addition to members of the Florida League of the South, who seek Southern independence from the United States and whom the Southern Poverty Law Center has designated as a neo-Confederate extremist group , showed up Thursday night. (wuft.org)
  • The Southern Poverty Law Center stands with the PAEJ and Palatka community members in calling for the immediate removal of the Confederate monument, along with the striking of the Putnam County Commission's onerous restrictions that subvert the will of the people. (splcenter.org)
  • Hours later, the bronze topper of the Confederate monument in Hemming Park in Jacksonville, Florida, was removed early Tuesday morning. (go.com)
  • Erected in 1810 to celebrate the military victories of Napoleon - and topped with a statue of the French Emperor garbed as a Caesar - the Vendôme Column was cast in bronze recovered from artillery cannons seized in the Battle of Austerlitz. (forbes.com)
  • As a crane lifted the bronze statue off the granite it sat on, the crowd around it erupted in applause and with chants of "Black Lives Matter. (nbc12.com)
  • The statue stands 25-feet tall and is made of bronze and granite. (wlox.com)
  • We've had hundreds of white supremacists and Nazis come into town to defend those statues. (10news.com)
  • But rallies to defend both statues had been occurring off and on earlier that year as the city moved toward removing them. (nymag.com)
  • Northam acknowledged that many residents won't support removing the Robert E. Lee statue, which was erected in 1890. (go.com)
  • The Lee statue was erected in 1924, and the Jackson statue in 1921, and the state law in question should not be read as offering retroactive protections, reasoned the Supreme Court. (nymag.com)
  • Photographs dating back to 2006 show that the statue has been in a state of disrepair for more than a decade. (snopes.com)
  • Crews worked to remove the statue of Supreme Court judge and segregationist Roger Taney from the front lawn of the Maryland State House late Thursday night. (kbia.org)
  • Macon County officials have announced that they have filed a lawsuit in state court over the Confederate statue in Tuskegee's town square that some want to be removed. (waka.com)
  • His statue is the second removed since a new state law was enacted on July first. (clickorlando.com)
  • This was apparently consciously done to circumvent a state law that says statues located on public property cannot be removed without a special waiver, which the state declined to grant. (nonprofitquarterly.org)
  • A petition in Tennessee says the state "is littered with statues memorializing confederate officers," adding that "we need not glamorize those who do not deserve our praise. (worldtribune.com)
  • Dolly Parton has given more to this country and this state than those confederate officers could ever have hoped to take away. (worldtribune.com)
  • Lowndes County followed suit by voting unanimously Monday to remove a confederate statue from Hayneville Town Square. (waka.com)
  • I believe in a Virginia that studies its past in an honest way,' said Northam, who signed legislation authorizing localities to remove Confederate statues in April. (go.com)
  • City officials announced plans to remove the statue on Friday. (axios.com)
  • The statue of Columbus in Boston was removed by the city on Thursday and placed into storage, according to CBS News . (oxygen.com)
  • In Philadelphia last week, the city removed the statue of former Mayor Frank Rizzo - which has been a focal point for protests in the city for decades. (oxygen.com)
  • And you have this towering statue in the middle of Center City asking you to revere this person who very clearly didn't revere all of Philadelphia," historian Timothy J. Lombardo previously told Oxygen.com of the Rizzo statue. (oxygen.com)
  • Memphis) Hoping to start a conversation on compromise, Memphis City Councilman Jim Strickland and Mayor A C Wharton are offering up their ideas on what to name the formerly confederate-themed parks. (wreg.com)
  • Grossman was referencing the four statues that came down earlier this week in the city. (kbia.org)
  • A group of Orlando residents will urge city commissioners Monday afternoon to remove the 100-year-old statue of a confederate soldier in Lake Eola Park. (wmfe.org)
  • In December, NPQ reported that Memphis sold two city parks to a newly convened nonprofit, Memphis Greenspace, which immediately removed three Confederate statues and put them in storage. (nonprofitquarterly.org)
  • When Mayor Mitch Landrieu called for the city to remove the statue of Lee back in 2015, he said, "There may have been a time when that monument reflected who we were as a city, but times change. (upr.org)
  • After an intense public debate, the city council voted to take the statues down and place them in a new area. (upr.org)
  • In addition to the statue of Lee, Landrieu and other city officials want to take down a statue honoring Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard and a monument to the paramilitary White League, which launched a Reconstruction-era rebellion against the integrated Metropolitan New Orleans Police Force. (upr.org)
  • As protesters in one Virginia city tore down parts of a Confederate monument Wednesday night, part of the falling statue fell on to a protester, who has been left in a coma. (whsv.com)
  • Only moments earlier, Williams had been in a shouting match with one of the 50 protesters who had come waving Confederate flags in support of keeping the statue. (wuft.org)
  • A proposed resolution calling for the removal of the statue referred to Pike as a "chief founder of the post-Civil War Ku Klux Klan. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • It's actually been 100 years because there were people when the Jackson statue first went up in 1921 who said it shouldn't be there," Szakos said. (10news.com)
  • As a historian I always tell people you don't learn from statues, the only thing you learn from statues is reverence. (oxygen.com)
  • Many believe that the statue is offensive because he mistreated and exploited Native Americans, but Peoria park district Executive Director Emily Cahill said before they remove it they want to know how many people want it taken down. (centralillinoisproud.com)
  • People were out partying on the 4th of July and lighting fireworks off of it," said Christopher Jackson, 22, who lives two blocks from the statue and saw the revelers also light newspapers on fire on top of the statue. (snopes.com)
  • More than 150 people gathered Thursday, July 9, around the Confederate statue, known as Old Joe, to either call for its removal or demand that it stay. (wuft.org)
  • Jones agreed, emphasizing that the statue does not represent all the people of South Mississippi. (wlox.com)
  • When they put that statue up in that park in 1917, which is also ironic-it's 100 years since they put that statue up there-the black people who lived in Orlando at that time weren't in a position to be able to do anything about it. (wmfe.org)
  • The statues were erected decades after the Civil War, during an era when Southern states were crushing attempts to achieve equality for Black people. (clickorlando.com)
  • Confederate statues don't tell the story of the Civil War, but rather how people wanted the war to be remembered. (time.com)
  • In response, some people on Twitter began to make jokes about the "beauty" of Confederate statues. (buzzfeednews.com)
  • As a historian the hardest part of my job is that I am constantly building statues, as statues are the only way people learn about history. (buzzfeednews.com)
  • Removing the "traitorous" Confederate symbol would allow the people of Northampton County to "start to heal our wounds of the past," he said. (easternshorepost.com)
  • All the people who were saying it was heritage not hate, these people were rather silent when groups like the Klan would carry the confederate flag. (texasstandard.org)
  • He said he was concerned about public safety amid continuing protests and fears that protesters could get hurt if they tried to bring down the enormous statues themselves. (clickorlando.com)
  • Linda Foster president of the Bloomington Normal NAACP says for 13.4% of black Americans who live in this country, the confederate flag means slavery should never have ended because the debate over slavery sparked the civil war. (centralillinoisproud.com)
  • Confederate veterans of the Harmonson-West camp on the Eastern Shore first had raised money for a Confederate monument in Parksley, which was unveiled in 1899 and still stands today. (easternshorepost.com)
  • NOW: J.E.B. Stuart statue will be next to come down. (nbc12.com)