Confederate monuments in North Carolina have been the topic of debate for months, after Gov. Roy Cooper (D) called last year for all Confederate statues to be removed from public property. A 2015 state law bars the removal of the monuments without legislative approval. But several monuments hav...
The proposal is the latest move in a public debate in North Carolina about what to do with the statues that many say have racist origins. Another statue was torn down at the state’s flagship public university in 2018 and Winston-Salem city officials recently called for a statue downtown to...
Calhoun of South Carolina — would also be immediately removed under the legislation. Longer-term, the architect of the Capitol would be instructed to identify any other statues depicting those who served in the Confederate States of America for removal from public display. The statues would go ...
Police with the damaged statue, missing its head.WBNS-TV Confederate statues around the country have been targeted in the weeks following awhite-nationalist rallyto protest the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Virginia. Dozens of counterprotesters were inju...
There is strong support among North Carolina residents to keep Confederate statues and monuments on public property, even as another monument at the center of a prolonged legal battle has come down, according to the results of a new survey by the Elon University Poll. ...
and causing the bloodiest war in American history. Those Americans feel like we shouldn’t honor Confederacy and don’t want monuments or statues representing Confederacy here. Especially after hate crimes like the attack on an predominant African American church in South Carolina. It’s easy to ...
North Carolina, Virginia, and Tennessee—into the Confederacy, which now comprised 11 states. The border slave states of Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri remained in the Union although they contained many Southern sympathizers; Confederate state governments were established at Neosho, Mo., and Russell...
The statue was donated to the county in 1910 by the United Daughters of the Confederacy and is engraved with “to the men and women of the Confederacy.” The Southern Poverty Law Center says about 780 Confederate monuments and statues stand on public property in the United ...
The memorial, dedicated in 1916, commemorates more than 80 soldiers who fought for the Confederacy. A website advocating for it to stay on the courthouse lawn calls it "a piece of history and a splendid work of art that tells the story of brother vs. brother where North and South...
The others are the North Carolina Women of the Confederacy Monument, dedicated in 1914, and the statue of Henry Lawson Wyatt, dedicated in 1912. Wyatt is described on the statue’s base as the first Confederate soldier killed in action during the Civil War. Cooper requested that the statues ...