Speaker Succeeds in Having Civil War Plaque Removed From State ...

After several months of prodding from the first African-American presiding officer of the Maryland General Assembly, the panel that controls ...

Md. House Speaker Jones again calls to remove Civil War plaque ...

Maryland House Speaker Adrienne A. Jones (D-Baltimore) is renewing her call to remove a Civil War plaque that sits in the rotunda of the ...

Speaker, Lt. Governor Spar Over Civil War Plaque Proposal

Jones, the first African-American to lead either chamber of the Maryland legislature, said the decision to remove the plaque was particularly ...

Maryland Speaker Calls For Removal of Civil War Plaque In ...

The speaker of Maryland's House of Delegates has called for the removal of a Statehouse plaque that honors the Civil War's Union and ...

ENTERPRISE EDITORIAL: Move rebel plaque before session starts

State officials should stop dithering and remove a Confederate plaque with offensive ... have been taken down long ago, and its removal has become more urgent as ...

Removal of Confederate monuments and memorials - Wikipedia

However, opponents view that removing the monuments as erasing history or a sign of disrespect for their Southern heritage. Some Southern states passed state ...

Texas officials vote to remove Confederate plaque that says Civil ...

State Rep. Eric Johnson, D-Dallas, has led a crusade to get rid of the plaque, which asserts the Civil War was “not a rebellion, ...

Confederate statues would be removed from national parks under ...

But while controversy over Confederate memorials swirled over the Stone Mountain carving, the state Capitol's tribute to John Brown Gordon and ...

Disappearing Plaques in New Orleans - Emerging Civil War

The most dramatic removal was the cannon that sat atop a monument at Washington Artillery Park. The park existed after Mayor Moon Landrieu had ...

List of monuments and memorials removed during the George Floyd ...

The statue of Christopher Columbus at the Minnesota State Capitol moments after it was pulled from its pedestal by American Indian Movement protesters. The ...

Removal of Confederate Monuments from National Parks?

... succeed, in taking down all things Confederate in our Civil War battlefield parks. ... Two have been attacked already – the National Civil War ...

New speaker of Md. House calls for removal of Confederate plaque

At the height of the civil rights era, in 1964, the Maryland Civil War Centennial Commission installed a plaque in the grand marble hall of ...

Texas GOP speaker calls for removal of plaque honoring Confederacy

AUSTIN — Texas House Speaker Joe Straus has submitted a legal brief to the state attorney general calling for the removal of a plaque from ...

Book A Speaker - American Civil War Museum

Susie King Taylor was a remarkable African-American woman who defied all odds. Having been born into slavery, she secretly received an education and went on to ...

Civil War plaque could be removed from Maryland State House ...

Maryland House of Delegates Speaker Adrienne A. Jones, who tried unsuccessfully last year to remove the plaque, now appears to have gained ...

The National Park Service Symposium on the Civil War (Healing ...

If an anthropologist from Mars would have come to the United States in 1950 or 1960 and tried to understand American history by looking at our ...

The group behind Confederate monuments also built a memorial to ...

The dedication speaker was Capt. Walter Taylor, a Confederate veteran and Ku Klux Klan leader who took the convention podium fully robed and ...

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 ...

Michigan in the American Civil War

When the southern states seceded, they tried to form a new country, the “Confederate States of America,” also known as the “Confederacy.” After that, the “Union ...

Republican speaker of the Texas House just called for the removal ...

AUSTIN — Joe Straus, the Republican speaker of the Texas House, on Tuesday called for an increasingly divisive Confederate plaque to be ...