Charlottesville protest revives Confederate statue removal battle
2,094 views · Published 16 August 2017 · 1:21 · Indexed 25 October 2026
Channel: IBTimes UK · 2017 · News & Politics
In Memphis, Tennessee, the city is suing the state for the removal of a bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest, an early Ku Klux Klan leader, which stands in the capitol. In Frankfort, Kentucky, it's a statue of the Jefferson Davis, that has drawn ire from the local NAACP chapter for years. In Jacksonville, Florida, Anna Lopez Brosche, president of the city council, has requested the city take a full inventory...of all publicly displayed Confederate symbols on public property, and develop a plan to relocate them. It's all part of the age-old controversy which has has regained national attention......in the wake of Charlottesville, Virginia's deadly "Unite the Right" rally. The rally was held in response to the city council's decision to remove the Robert E. Lee statue in Charlottesville's Lee Park, to be renamed Emancipation Park. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, over 700 Confederate monuments and statues remain on U.S. public land
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