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Texans don’t want to go the way of Louisiana.
Defenders of the South mustn’t teach children.
Mayor: “We will take a closer look at how we go about following in the footsteps of New Orleans.”
After the Confederates, Who’s Next?
Don’t think this will end in New Orleans.
Alabama Governor Signs Confederate Monuments Preservation Bill, Associated Press
Bill also prevents changing school names that are more than 40 years old.
No city better represents “E pluribus unum” than New Orleans, he says.
Why Yankees Must Defend Confederate Heritage
A common purpose unites all whites.
Sanctuary City Mayor Trashes an American Hero
Carpetbagger sets sights on Robert E. Lee.
Mayor said it, “harkens back to the days of the KKK.”
Generals Beauregard and Lee will soon follow.
Government still won’t say when they’re to be removed.
Three of the four targeted statues are still standing.
The Taliban-like Attack on New Orleans’s History, American Thinker
Who will defend the South and her symbols?
Mayor: “There’s a better way to use the property these monuments are on and a way that better reflects who we are.”
Some worry that flying the state flag could hurt athletic recruiting.
Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and P.G.T. Beauregard may all soon come down.
Muhiyidin Moye has been arrested.
Yale’s Inconsistent Name-Dropping, Wall Street Journal
John C. Calhoun is gone. Who’s next?
“Opinions . . . were as heated as if the Civil War had just ended.”
Frustrated, Armed with Ropes, Activist Group Plans to Pull Down Andrew Jackson Monument, New Orleans Advocate
Activist says plan will work, “if we’ve got enough people and we’ve got enough rope.”
With 3 Months Left in Office, Rawlings-Blake Still Considering Action on Confederate Monuments, Baltimore Sun
Her “short-term” solution is “interpretive signage.”
Confederate Flags Taken Off 70 Graves at Historic Cemetery in Brunswick, Florida Times-Union
Police say vandalism, Sons of Confederate Veterans leaders say desecration.
To Remove ‘Confederate’ from a Building’s Name, Vanderbilt Will Return an 83-Year-Old Donation, Chronicle of Higher Education
Vandy will pay $1.2 million for the right to remove the name.
Citizens voted in 2001 to keep the flag.
Chair of PA Legislative Black Caucus: “That Confederate flag is a symbol of hate, murder and oppression.”
Flags will be replaced with plain glass.
84 Republicans joined Democrats in support of the ban.
Judge Blocks Confederate Monument’s Removal, Courier-Journal
Louisville mayor planned to move the 70-foot-tall monument.
Arrests, Violence at Stone Mountain as Counter-Protesters Clash, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Hundreds of “anti-racists” fought with the police.
One Mississippi congressman is pleased “the Capitol will no longer display symbols of hatred and bigotry.”
Some Charlottesville residents want Lee Park renamed and a statue of General Lee removed.
The city is unable to find a contractor to do the work.
Momentum to Remove Confederate Symbols Slows or Stops, New York Times
Southerners seek legal safeguards for their symbols.
The MS legislature also decline to remove the Confederate battle emblem from the state’s flag.
City lawyer: National “groundswell of racial tension” means the monuments could be sites of violence.
There were punches thrown, students shouting “black power,” and threats of mass shootings.
Baltimore looks for “new art that better reflects who we are today.”
HISD Board Votes to Rename 4 Schools Named After Confederate Loyalists, Houston Chronicle
Grady, Dowling, Jackson, and Lee must all go.
Defenders of Confederate Symbols Mount a Counterattack, Wall Street Journal
Sales of Confederate flags are “off the charts.”
The mayor and city council have approved the removal.
The mayor and city council will probably remove four major Confederate monuments.
But will not ban the flag outright.
Fight over Confederate Flag Decal Could Be Investigated as Hate Crime, Police Say, Fox 13 (Salt Lake City)
Six blacks attack two whites.
The next target for removal is a campus monument to the Confederate dead.
Blacks say flaggers shouted racial slurs and flashed guns.
A Monument to MLK Will Crown Stone Mountain, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The mountain is supposed to be a memorial only to the Confederacy.
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