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These laws have prompted bitter conflicts, sometimes leading angry citizens to topple massive stone or bronze monuments themselves. The challenges present fertile ground for innovative lawyering. Creative applications of state property, nuisance and contract laws have led to removals notwithstanding the ...
CHICAGO/WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 (Xinhua) -- Confederate monuments have caused a clamor in August when Americans forced their eyes wider open to review whether longstanding monuments and statues in memory of confederate past are historically correct or in tune with modern values. The debate was triggere...
The Advisory Committee on City of Atlanta Street Names and Monuments Associated with the Confederacy was tasked with making recommendations for a variety of monuments on city property and street names throughout Atlanta.
” Joseph E.Brownand Zebulon B.Vance, the governors of Georgia and North Carolina, led the denunciation of conscription and further berated Davis for the assumption of state troops into the Confederate army, the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus, and the Confederate tax program. Their ...
who fought for a racist cause and tried to bring about the destruction of the United States, weretoppled by protestersand removed by state and local governments. Amazingly, it has taken more than a century for a consensus to form across America that these monuments and ...
ConfederateMonuments TheConfederatemonuments are a vital part of history and eliminating them is like eliminating history. The past is the past and the monuments do not stand for racism it stands for a part of history and it definitely wasn’t a good part of history but it was a learning ex...
“As a Tennessean, it makes me sick that there are monuments standing in our state that celebrate racist historical figures who did evil things. Edward Carmack and Nathan Bedford Forrest were DESPICABLE figures in our state history and should be treated as such,” she said. Edward Carmack’s...
By then, the construction of new Confederate monuments had begun to taper off, but the backlash to the Civil Rights Movement was spreading Confederate symbols in other ways: In 1956, Georgia redesigned its state flag to include the Confederate battle flag; and in 1962, South Carolina placed the...