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Jun 05 2020
Headline Roundup
Perspectives: Confederate Monuments
Virginia Governor Ralph Northam (D) recently announced the upcoming removal of a statue commerating Confederate General Robert E. Lee in Richmond, the state capital. The decision prompted voices throughout the spectrum to emerge with differing opinions on the purportedly racist existence of such monuments and the supposed importance of historical preservation. It is rumored that other statues
CNN (Opinion)
USA TODAY 
The American Spectator 
Aug 27 2020
News
Hurricane Laura downs controversial Confederate monument in Louisiana
A Confederate monument in Louisiana that local officials voted to keep earlier this month was damaged by Hurricane Laura as the storm battered the Gulf Coast Thursday morning, a report said.
The statue of a Confederate general that stood atop the South’s Defenders Monument on the grounds of a courthouse in Lake Charles was blown off during the storm, the Daily Advertiser reported.
New York Post (News)
Jun 19 2020
Opinion
Conservatives Should Feel No Investment in Confederate Monuments
In the wave of cancellations sweeping America, Confederate statues have been particularly hard hit.
They have been graffitied, assaulted, and torn down, while authorities rush to remove them.
Rich Lowry
Feb 13 2020
News
Birmingham Mayor Fights To Remove Confederate Monuments
The mayor of Birmingham, Alabama is using his political might to reverse laws enacted to protect Confederate monuments in his state. In fact, whether or not to keep them erected, he says, shouldn’t even be up for debate.
"We should not be debating about whether or not to keep a monument erected in defense of slavery in the 4th blackest city in America,” Mayor Randall Woodfin wrote on
BET
Aug 21 2018
News
The Dramatic Fall of Silent Sam, UNC’s Confederate Monument
Protesters toppled the 1913 statue Monday night, making it the latest Civil War memorial to be removed either by government or by demonstrators acting on their own.
The Atlantic
Jan 29 2021
News
Georgia Confederate Monument to Be Replaced by Memorial Honoring John Lewis
A memorial honoring the late Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), a Civil Rights icon, will soon take the place of a confederate monument in DeKalb County, Georgia.
On Jan. 26, DeKalb County Commissioners approved a resolution to position the memorial on the grounds of the Historic DeKalb County Courthouse.
A confederate monument was removed from the same location in June of 2020.
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Independent Journal Review
Sep 15 2019
News
Virginia judge rules Confederate war monuments must remain
A Virginia state judge has ruled the city of Charlottesville cannot move two Civil War statues that were at the center of the riots in 2017.
After Judge Richard Moore issued his ruling Wednesday, plaintiffs that argued in defense of the statues are requesting $604,000 to cover attorney fees, plus $500 for each plaintiff.
The Charlottesville City Council voted unanimously in 2017
Washington Examiner
May 11 2017
News
New Orleans removes 2nd Confederate-era monument
Dozens of people gathered in New Orleans on Thursday morning to witness the removal of the Jefferson Davis Memorial, the second of four Confederate-era monuments that are set to come down.
ABC News (Online)
Oct 22 2021
Analysis
Nearly 100 Confederate Monuments Were Toppled Last Year. What Happened to Them?
It’s been a long time since I sat in an American history class, but what I remember of my education in Jacksonville, Florida, in the 1980s and ’90s is how much of it was not fact, but myth.
I was taught that the Civil War was fought over states’ rights—a concept that seemed plausibly defensible to a kid—and that “our side” had its own heroes and its own stories worth remembering.
Mother Jones
May 26 2021
News
Georgia park wants to ‘tell the truth’ about world’s largest Confederate monument. Others want it gone.
A record number of Confederate memorials fell last year amid a push to reject racism after the killing of George Floyd — but the biggest Confederate monument in the world still stands in Georgia, just a short drive from Atlanta. Carved into a mountain, Robert E. Lee, Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson and Jefferson Davis tower over visitors to a state park.
Then there are the Confederate flags
Washington Post