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Georgia lawmakers push to remove Confederate designation on ...

A bill Monday that would remove the official designation of Stone Mountain Park as a Confederate Memorial.

Georgia Lawmakers Fighting To Remove The World's Largest ...

State legislators in Georgia introduced House Bill 794 to remove the official designation of Stone Mountain as a Confederate memorial.

DeKalb delegation wants to remove Stone Mountain's designation ...

Members of DeKalb County's all-Democratic legislative delegation are seeking to remove Stone Mountain's designation as a Confederate memorial.

Stone Mountain Park could shed its Confederate memorial ... - Axios

Some DeKalb County lawmakers are once again trying to remove the Confederate memorial designation from Stone Mountain Park.

Georgia Lawmakers Fighting To Remove The World's Largest ...

If a new bill passes, Stone Mountain Park– just outside of Atlanta, Georgia– will undergo extensive changes.

Fight to remove Confederate image from Stone Mountain continues

State legislators designated Stone Mountain Park as a memorial to the Confederacy when it was purchased by the state in 1958, but current ...

Stone Mountain Memorial Association grapples with proposals to ...

The Stone Mountain Memorial Association met Monday amid continuing calls for something to be done about the park's most prominent feature — a 90 ...

Plan to transform largest Confederate monument lacks transparency

A plan by the state-appointed Stone Mountain Memorial Association (SMMA), which governs the park, to spend over $11 million of taxpayers' money to renovate the ...

Georgia lawmakers push to remove Confederate designation on ...

STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. - A group of state representatives in DeKalb County has proposed big changes to Stone Mountain Park. Democratic State Rep.

Removal of Confederate monuments and memorials - Wikipedia

There are more than 160 Confederate monuments and memorials to the Confederate States of America (CSA; the Confederacy) and associated figures that have ...

Georgia bill would ban Confederate monuments on public property

Shelly Hutchinson, who represents Snellville, has recently filed House Bill 1212, which would prohibit any monuments, markers, plaques, or ...

A John Lewis statue will replace a former Confederate monument in ...

A Georgia square that was home to a Confederate monument for more than a century will now host a statue of the late civil rights icon John Lewis.

Georgia House bill focuses on removal of Confederate symbols from ...

The proposed legislation-House Bills 237 and 238- seek to remove all Confederate memorials from public property in Georgia, including state-owned Stone ...

Georgia lawmakers push to remove Confederate designation on ...

Georgia lawmakers push to remove Confederate designation on Stone Mountain Park. A bill supported by all of DeKalb County's state representatives could bring ...

News and Press | Mary Margaret Oliver

Rep. Oliver serves as chair of the MARTOC committee, making her the sole Democrat committee chair in the General State House, and this session, ...

Stone Mountain: Carving Fact from Fiction | Atlanta History Center

How did the world's largest Confederate monument end up outside of Atlanta? What should be done, if anything, with it?

As monuments fall, Confederate carving has size on its side

the largest Confederate monument ever crafted — colossal figures carved into the solid rock of a Georgia mountainside — may outlast them all ...

Bill could remove Confederate images from Stone Mountain, but ...

The bill would allow nature to take its course and eventually wear down the carving of Confederate leaders Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson.

Georgia lawmakers push to remove Confederate designation on ...

Georgia lawmakers push to remove Confederate designation on Stone Mountain Park https://images.foxtv.com/static.fox5atlanta.com/www.fox5atlanta.com/content ...