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Confederate monument removed from plot in city-owned cemetery where Union and Confederate soldiers are buried. Monument has been the target of petitions for removal since 2017. [169] [170] Uptown Square Confederate Monument Lexington: North Carolina October 14 October 16 Removed at the request of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
Wilmington: In the early morning of June 25, 2020, in what has been described as a surprise move, the City of Wilmington removed the Confederate Memorial (1924) and the George Davis Monument (1911). The city's Twitter page posted at 5:28 a.m.: [372] "In accordance with NC law, the city has temporarily removed two monuments from the downtown ...
Many monuments and memorials have been or will be removed under great controversy. Part of the commemoration of the American Civil War , these symbols include monuments and statues, flags, holidays and other observances, and the names of schools, roads, parks, bridges, buildings, counties, cities, lakes, dams, military bases, and other public ...
In 2009, Oklahoma State Representative Mike Ritze sponsored a bill to have a monument to the Ten Commandments installed at the capitol. His family supplied $10,000 to fund the monument, which was installed in late 2012. [40] The monument since has been labeled "a lightning rod of controversy". [41]
Richmond removed its other Confederate monuments amid the racial justice protests that followed George Floyd’s killing in 2020. But efforts to remove the statue of Confederate General A.P. Hill ...
A monument constructed to poke fun at former President Donald J. Trump at a state park in New York has been taken down. The monument, which alludes to Trump's anatomy and repeats a quote from ...
Pages in category "Monuments and memorials in the United States removed during the George Floyd protests" The following 108 pages are in this category, out of 108 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
A North Carolina appeals court ruled Tuesday that local leaders who refused calls to remove a Confederate monument from outside a county courthouse acted in a constitutional manner and kept in ...