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The following monuments and memorials were removed during the George Floyd protests, mainly due to their connections to racism.The majority are in the United States and mostly commemorate the Confederate States of America (CSA), but some monuments were also removed in other countries, for example the statues of slave traders in the United Kingdom.
Chart of public symbols of the Confederacy and its leaders as surveyed by the Southern Poverty Law Center, by year of establishment [note 1]. Most of the Confederate monuments on public land were built in periods of racial conflict, such as when Jim Crow laws were being introduced in the late 19th century and at the start of the 20th century or during the civil rights movement of the 1950s and ...
Robert E. Lee Statue at Antietam Creek, Antietam National Battlefield (2003) [311] The statue is attempting to be removed by legislation through H.R.970 (2019) [312] and the National Park Service acknowledges the inaccuracies of the statue and educates those in the park accordingly. Samuel Garland, Jr. Monument (1993) [313]
After the death of George Floyd in late May, more than 130 Confederate statues and tributes to divisive historical figures have come down in a flurry of protests, acts of vandalism and government ...
Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said he would vote for the bill, but made it a point to emphasize that “all the statues being removed by this bill are statues of Democrats.”
A pair of statues honoring the Confederacy in Jacksonville’s Springfield Park were taken down Wednesday under the orders of the city’s mayor. “This is not in any way an attempt to erase ...
One month later, an equestrian statue of King George III was erected. It was executed by the British sculptor Joseph Wilton. [3] Commissioned in 1764 and cast in lead covered with gold leaf, the Neoclassical statue showed King George dressed in Roman garb astride a horse, the whole effect being reminiscent of the Marcus Aurelius statue in Rome.
Anti-racism campaigners have compiled a list of monuments they want removed in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests.