The resolution demands the monument must be removed immediately by the organization United Daughters of the Confederacy, or the city will execute the removal. The Vance Monument honors Zebulon Baird Vance, a former North Carolina governor and Confederate military officer. On June 9, a joint resolution was passed by Asheville City Council on the removal of the 50-foot-tall Vance Monument and accompanying Confederate monuments displayed downtown. In an email to students, the university’s president, Eli Capilouto, recalled “a conversation with one student about the mural who stopped me cold with the observation that every time he walked into a class in Memorial Hall, he was forced to reckon with the fact that his forebears were enslaved.” Students have protested racist images of black people and Native Americans in the mural. The University of Kentucky in Lexington said on June 5 that a mural, which has previously been a source of controversy on campus, will be removed. According to a report by the Courier-Journal, the city plans to move the statue to Cave Hill Cemetery, where Castleman is buried. Castleman was removed from the Cherokee Triangle neighborhood in Louisville on June 8. “For far too long it has served as nothing more than a painful reminder of our state’s horrific embrace of the Ku Klux Klan a century ago,” Joe Hogsett, mayor of Indianapolis, said of the monument on the occasion of its removal.Ī statue of Confederate soldier John B. The monument was originally placed in a cemetery in 1912 and moved to Garfield Park in 1928, when Ku Klux Klan members wanted to “make the monument more visible to the public,” according to city officials. On June 2, plans for the removal of the Athens Confederate Monument were announced, though the decision has hit a legislative roadblock in the form of Senate Bill 77, which bars the city from moving Confederate monuments to locations of lower prominence.Ī 35-foot-tall monument to Confederate soldiers in Garfield Park in Indianapolis was removed from public view on June 8 and its base was taken apart on June 9. On June 9, a bronze topper honoring the Jacksonville Light Infantry, a division in the Confederacy, was removed by the city. The city’s mayor, Martin Walsh, said that the local government is “going to take time to assess the historic meaning of the statue.” The following day, the city moved the remaining parts of the statute from public view to storage. Protesters removed the head of a six-foot-tall Christopher Columbus statue in Boston’s North End on June 10. It is about removing a potential distraction so we may focus clearly on the future of our city.” In a statement, the mayor said that the statue had been “placed in a secure location,” and that the decision to move it “will not change the past. On June 4, the city’s mayor, Sandy Stimpson, issued an order to remove the statute from public view. Protesters painted various messages, including “ACAB” and “Confed Scum,” on a statue of Confederate navy officer Raphael Semmes in downtown Mobile. Randall Woodfin, the city’s mayor, subsequently issued an order to remove the nearby Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument, which protesters had attempted to dismantle. In Birmingham, protestors toppled an eight-foot-tall bronze statue of the Confederate navy captain Charles Linn in Linn Park on May 31.
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