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US: Park with Confederate carving proposes changes - Times of India

Robert E. Lee, Confederate President Jefferson Davis and Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson on the mountain's northern face. it is the largest ...

Amid talk of change, Stone Mountain Park allows Confederate ...

The permit allows for a gathering of no more than 200 people from 8:30 until 1 pm Saturday on the Memorial Plaza lawn below the 90-foot tall Confederate ...

Confederate monument removal barred under some new state laws

Civil War monuments are scattered across the US, but in recent years cities have removed Confederate statues. GOP state lawmakers are ...

Historic Statue Removal – Top 3 Pros & Cons - ProCon.org

An 1884 Confederate monument to General Robert E. Lee is removed from Lee Circle in New Orleans, Louisiana, on May 19, 2017. Source: Abdazizar. “The Confederate ...

Georgia activists seek to remove 'Stone Mountain', the 'granddaddy ...

The engraved Georgia memorial is America's largest Confederate monument. ... Rev. Robert Lee IV, descendent of Robert E. Lee said: “If I can ...

Group pushes for major changes to Confederate imagery at ... - WJCL

STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. (AP) — An activist group has presented its plans for changes to Confederate imagery at Georgia's popular Stone Mountain Park ...

Memorialization of Robert E. Lee and the Lost Cause - Arlington ...

... large public monument in 1884. The ... The most profound change came in the form of hundreds of public monuments to the Confederate dead.

Truth: Remarks on the Removal of Confederate Monuments in New ...

History cannot be changed. It cannot be moved like a statue. What is done is done. The Civil War is over, and the Confederacy lost and we are ...

Confederate Monuments | The First Amendment Encyclopedia

Protests surrounding statues turn dangerous ... The issue came to a head in August 2017 when the city of Charlottesville, Virginia, home to the ...

Q&A: Why Monuments Must Change - Open Society Foundations

This summer, the National Mall in Washington, D.C., will host a temporary exhibition called “Beyond Granite: Pulling Together” with six ...

Confederate monuments and memorials - Wikipedia

In a December 2018 special report, Smithsonian Magazine stated, "over the past ten years, taxpayers have directed at least $40 million to Confederate monuments— ...

Campaign to remove Confederate Mount Rushmore in Georgia fails ...

The nation's largest Confederate monument will undergo several changes amid backlash, but Georgia officials revealed they will not ...

This is the largest Confederate monument in the world. It's ... - TikTok

It's Stone Mountain, located just outside Atlanta, and it's become a controversial landmark in the south. Many have called for the removal of ...

US park celebrating the pro-slavery Confederacy faces a reckoning

Stone Mountain Park in the US state of Georgia is facing changes, partly due to the park's new Black chairman.

A compelling new short doc traces Stone Mountain's racist roots

A drone's eye view of a towering rock facade bears bas relief carving of Confederate leaders. Stone Mountain is the largest monument to the ...

Confederate Monument under scrutiny amid US racial reckoning

The proposals come amid a national reckoning on race that brought down dozens of Confederate monuments in a span of weeks last year. Some ...

United Daughters of the Confederacy - Encyclopedia Virginia

Protestors at the University of North Carolina topple the Confederate statue known as Silent Sam, which was erected by the North Carolina chapter of the United ...

As Monuments Fall, Confederate Carving Has Size on Its Side

As statues of figures from America's slave-owning past come down across the nation, the largest Confederate monument ever crafted may ...

What is a Confederate Monument? - University of Minnesota

Where Did Confederate Monuments Come From? ... Lorraine Boissoneault, What Will Happen to Stone Mountain, America's. Largest Confederate Memorial?, SMITHSONIAN.

Whose Heritage? Public Symbols of the Confederacy (Third edition)

Public opinion is changing as more people learn about the cause of the Civil War—slavery—and the motivations behind the dedication of ...