Confederate Monuments

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Confederate statues, mississippi, theGrio.com
September 18, 2024
The Grenada City Council voted to move the monument in 2020, weeks after police killed George Floyd in Minneapolis.
October 11, 2022
The Department of Defense has approved the renaming of nine military bases that honor confederate officers.
June 27, 2022
Democratic Mayor-elect Garnett Johnson said ahead of last week's election that removing confederate monuments weren't a priority.
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April 30, 2022
Team Henry Enterprises has removed more than three dozen Confederate monuments in Virginia and other Southeastern states.
April 7, 2022
Many universities in the state had already been removing Confederacy symbols, but the 2020 protests helped accelerate the process.
April 1, 2022
Tami Sawyer, a Memphis county commissioner, maintained that George Johnson harassed her at her home and also threatened her.
March 22, 2022
Harriet Tubman, Gen. Colin Powell and Gen. Roscoe Robinson, Jr. are among the legendary names under consideration.
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February 7, 2022
City officials in Virginia have tasked the leaders of their local Black History Museum & Cultural Center with deciding the…
December 30, 2021
The Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia has agreed to house a statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee…
December 5, 2021
Preliminary work on the pedestal removal was expected to begin Monday, with the project expected to be “substantially complete” by…
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October 17, 2021
"We can’t pinpoint exactly the cause and effect. But the association is clearly there,” said a research team member at…
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June 28, 2021
The membership of two neo-Confederate groups have been revealed and among them are scholars, military veterans and politicians.
May 30, 2021
Camille Bennett, an Alabama activist, has experienced death threats for her campaign calling for the removal of a Confederate statue.
January 3, 2021
Unique Morgan Dunston has led protests since August against a Confederate monument on the court lawn in her all-white Alabama…
August 30, 2020
Hurricane Laura destroyed a Confederate monument in Lake Charles two weeks after local officials voted to keep it in place.
August 18, 2020
Louise Lucas, among others, has been charged with conspiracy to commit a felony and injury to a monument in excess…
Black Confederate Alabama thegrio.com
August 13, 2020
A Black Alabama man attending a protest against Confederate monuments says that he is fine with them remaining in place.
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June 4, 2020
After years of protest, an iconic monument of the Confederacy, a prominent statue of General Robert E. Lee is coming…
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November 29, 2019
The Alabama Supreme Court upheld a state law barring cities like Birmingham from moving or changing Confederate monuments.
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September 10, 2018
Eight people were arrested Saturday following another protest over the toppling of a Confederate monument at the University of North…