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Within three years of the Charleston shooting, at least 114 Confederate monuments were removed from public spaces, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which published an extensive report in 2016 of Confederate memorials in public spaces [2] and keeps an up-to-date list online. [46] [47] Texas removed 31, more than any other state. [48]
Many Confederate monuments were dedicated in the ... Texas, formerly named after Confederate ... Maryland was the last Confederate monument removed from public ...
During the George Floyd protests in June 2020, following the murder of George Floyd, a number of statues and memorials where toppled or removed. After residents defaced the monument the Tarrant County commission voted to remove it. The monument was removed on June 13, 2020, [3] and moved to storage. [4] [5] [6]
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 ...
One man had been protesting a Confederate monument in his Texas town since the 1990s. In 2020, it was finally brought down. One man's 21-year protest to take down a Confederate monument - and ...
Protests in other cities focused on destroying or defacing Confederate monuments, and on June 11, 2020, the city filed an emergency motion with the Court of Appeals asking for immediate permission to remove the War Memorial, citing the possibility of serious injury to protesters if the monument were to be toppled during a planned rally at the ...
Our Confederate Soldiers is a Confederate monument in Beaumont, Texas, United States. [1] The memorial was removed and put into storage on June 29, 2020, in the wake of the George Floyd protests . [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
A federal judge on Monday ordered a halt to the removal of a Confederate monument at Arlington National Cemetery shortly after U.S. Army crews began work to dismantle the tall bronze statue as ...