Jacksonville Mayor Orders Statue Honoring Confederate Women Removed With No Future Plans for It

Workers hauled off a monument to women of the Confederacy from a Jacksonville, Florida, park Wednesday, in what the city’s mayor called a show of “belief in our shared humanity,” but a political opponent described it as “tearing down history.” The “Tribute to the Women of the Southern Confederacy” monument was removed from Springfield Park, where it had stood since 1915, on orders from Mayor Donna Deegan. “Symbols matter. They tell the world what we stand for and what we aspire to be. By removing the confederate monument from Springfield...