Re: COMPLETE LIST of Confederate Statues TAKEN DOWN... (bandwidth alert~) It's a LONG LIST

On 7/4/20 12:34 PM, BiologyMajor wrote:
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> AMERICAN HAS BEEN CLEANSED OF IT'S RACIST TRAITORS!
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> Donald 'too late' Trump vows to stop it.
> 
> HE'S TOO LATE.
> 
> CrimiNy, had no idea there were so many of them.
> Especially in Texas and Virginia. I especially
> like the massive renaming of High Schools too.
> 
> This is a list of confederate symbols taken down
> in the last few years, mostly after Trump took
> office.
> 
> Scroll down if you have the time...
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> 
> 
> National
> 
> Fort Bliss
> 
> After receiving complaints, Forrest Road was renamed Cassidy Road, in
> honor of the Lt. Gen. Richard T. Cassidy, former post commander.[88]
> 
> U.S. Marine Corps
> 
> In February 2020, Marine Gen. David H. Berger ordered "the removal of
> all Confederate-related paraphernalia from Marine Corps installations."
> This includes all Confederate flags, bumper stickers, and "similar
> items".[89]
> 
> Alabama
> 
> Alabama State Capitol, Montgomery: On June 24, 2015, in the wake of the
> Charleston church shooting on June 17, 2015, on the order of Governor
> Robert J. Bentley, the four Confederate flags and their poles were
> removed from the Confederate Memorial Monument.[90]
> 
> Birmingham
> 
> The Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument was erected in 1905. In
> the midst of the George Floyd protests, was removed by the city on June
> 1, 2020, in violation of the Alabama Memorial Preservation Act of 2017,
> a law passed specifically to prevent the removal of this monument. It
> was the most prominent Confederate monument in the state.[91] The
> Alabama Attorney General has filed suit against the city of Birmingham
> for violating the statute; the city could be fined $25,000 for the
> violation but cannot be forced to restore the monument. Mayor Randall
> Woodfin said the fine would be much more affordable than the cost of
> continued unrest in the city.[92][93]
> 
> Demopolis
> 
> Confederate Park. Renamed "Confederate Park" in 1923 at the request of
> the United Daughters of the Confederacy. A Confederate soldier statue
> was erected in 1910 at the intersection of North Main Avenue and West
> Capital Street adjacent to the Park. It was destroyed on July 16, 2016,
> when a policeman accidentally crashed his patrol car into the monument.
> The statue fell from its pedestal and was heavily damaged. In 2017,
> Demopolis city government voted 3–2 to move the damaged Confederate
> statue to a local museum and to install a new obelisk memorial that
> honors both the Union and the Confederate soldiers.[94][95]
> 
> Montgomery
> 
> The statue of Robert E. Lee in front of the Robert E. Lee High School
> was removed on June 1, 2020. Four people were charged with felony
> criminal mischief.[96]
> 
> Alaska
> 
> Kusilvak Census Area: In 1913, Judge John Randolph Tucker named the Wade
> Hampton Census Area to commemorate his father-in-law. It was renamed
> Kusilvak Census Area in 2015 to remove a place named for a slave-holding
> Confederate general.[97]
> 
> Arizona
> 
> Picacho Peak State Park: A wooden marker dedicated to Col. Sherod
> Hunter's Arizona volunteers was removed by the Park Services.
> Deterioration of the wood was the supposed cause of the removal.
> 
> Arkansas
> 
> In 2017, the Arkansas Legislature voted to stop honoring Robert E. Lee’s
> birthday.[98]
> 
> In 2019, the Arkansas Legislature voted to replace Arkansas's two
> statues in the National Statuary Hall Collection. Uriah Milton Rose, an
> attorney and founder of the Rose Law Firm, advised against secession,
> but backed the Confederacy during the war; while not a soldier or
> elected officeholder, he served the Confederacy as chancellor of Pulaski
> County, later being appointed the Confederacy's state historian.[99] A
> statue of white supremacist progressive era-Governor James Paul Clarke
> was also removed.[100] They will be replaced with statues of Johnny Cash
> and journalist and state NAACP president Daisy L. Gatson Bates, who
> played a key role in the integration of Little Rock's Central High
> School in 1957.[101]
> 
> Fort Smith:
> 
> Southside High School: Until 2016, the school nickname was the Rebels.
> Its mascot was Johnny Reb, a fictional personification of a Confederate
> soldier. The school also discontinued the use of "Dixie" as its fight
> song.[102]
> 
> Harrison:
> 
> General Jubilation T. Cornpone statue removed in 2003.[103]
> Little Rock:
> Confederate Boulevard was renamed Springer Boulevard in 2015. The new
> name honors an African-American family prominent in the area since the
> Civil War.[104]
> 
> California
> 
> Confederate Corners: Established 1868. Formerly known as Springtown, it
> was renamed after a group of Southerners settled there in the late
> 1860s.[105][13] Name changed back to "Springtown" in 2018.[106]
> Long Beach
> 
> Robert E. Lee Elementary School. Renamed Olivia Herrera Elementary
> School on August 1, 2016.[107]
> 
> Los Angeles
> 
> Confederate Monument, Hollywood Forever Cemetery.[108] "Covered with a
> tarp and whisked away in the middle of the night after activists called
> for its removal and spray-painted the word 'No' on its back," August 15,
> 2017.[109][110]
> 
> Quartz Hill:
> 
> Quartz Hill High School. Until 1995, the school had a mascot called
> Johnny Reb, who would wave a Confederate Flag at football games. Johnny
> Reb had replaced another Confederate-themed mascot, Jubilation T.
> Cornpone, who waved the Stars and Bars flag at football games. "Slave
> Day" fundraisers were phased out in the 1980s.[111]
> 
> San Diego
> 
> Robert E. Lee Elementary School, established 1959. Renamed Pacific View
> Leadership Elementary School on May 22, 2016.[112]
> Markers of the Jefferson Davis Highway, installed in Horton Plaza in
> 1926 and moved to the western sidewalk of the plaza following a 2016
> renovation.[113] Following the Unite the Right rally in Virginia, the
> San Diego City Council removed the plaque on August 16, 2017.[114]
> 
> San Lorenzo:
> 
> San Lorenzo High School. Until 2017, the school nickname was the
> "Rebels" – a tribute to the Confederate soldier in the Civil War. Its
> mascot, The Rebel Guy, was retired in 2016. The school's original
> mascot, Colonel Reb, was a white man with a cane and goatee who was
> retired in 1997.[115]
> 
> District of Columbia
> 
> U.S. Capitol, National Statuary Hall Collection
> Alabama's statue of Confederate officer Jabez Curry was replaced by a
> statue of Helen Keller in 2009.[116]
> In 2019, the Arkansas Legislature voted to replace Arkansas's statues;
> see above.
> Florida's statue of Edmund Kirby Smith is being replaced by one of Civil
> Rights advocate and educator Mary McLeod Bethune, which as of July,
> 2018, had not been finished.
> 
> Confederate Memorial Hall, actually a brownstone row house at 1322
> Vermont Avenue, just off Logan Circle. "A home and gathering place for
> Confederate veterans in Washington, D.C., and later, a social hall for
> white politicians from the South." The organization that owned it, the
> Confederate Memorial Association, keeps active the 1997 web page that
> lists the paintings and artifacts at this self-designated "Confederate
> Embassy". The building was seized and sold in 1997 to pay $500,000 in
> contempt of court fines that the organization's president, John Edward
> Hurley (who calls it "my...organization"), received in District of
> Columbia courts.[117] It then became a private residence.[118][119]
> In 2017, Washington National Cathedral removed stained glass windows
> honoring Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. In 2016, it had removed
> the small Confederate flags in those windows.[120]
> 
> Florida
> 
> An August 2017 meeting of the Florida League of Mayors was devoted to
> the topic of what to do with Civil War monuments.[121]
> 
> State symbols
> 
> Until 2016, the shield of the Confederacy was found in the Rotunda of
> the Florida Capitol, together with those of France, Spain, England, and
> the United States – all of them treated equally as "nations" that
> Florida was part of or governed by. The five flags "that have flown in
> Florida" were included on the official Senate seal, displayed
> prominently in the Senate chambers, on its stationery, and throughout
> the Capitol. On October 19, 2015, the Senate agreed to change the seal
> so as to remove the Confederate battle flag from it.[122] The new (2016)
> Senate seal has only the flags of the United States and Florida.[123]
> 
> Bradenton
> 
> On August 22, 2017, the Manatee County Commission voted 4–3 to move the
> Confederate monument in front of the county courthouse to storage.[124]
> This granite obelisk was dedicated on June 22, 1924 by the Judah P.
> Benjamin Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. It
> commemorates Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee, and Jefferson Davis, and
> the "Memory of Our Confederate Soldiers."[125] On August 24, while being
> moved (at 3 AM), the spire toppled and broke. The clean break is
> repairable, but the County recommends it not be repaired until a new
> home is found.[126][127]:32 No final decision has been made as of
> September, 2018, but the Gamble Plantation Historic State Park has been
> suggested as a possible new home for it.[128]
> 
> Crestview
> 
> Florida's Last Confederate Veteran Memorial, City Park (1958). In 2015,
> ownership was transferred to trustees of Lundy's family and the memorial
> was moved to private property.[127][129] Soon after, research determined
> the memorialized man had not been a veteran but had falsified his age to
> get veteran benefits.[130] After the removal of the Confederate monument
> and flag, the park is now referred to as the "former Confederate
> Park."[130]
> 
> Daytona Beach
> 
> In August 2017, the Daytona Beach city manager made the decision to
> remove three plaques from Riverfront Park that honored Confederate
> veterans.[131][132][133]
> 
> Fort Myers
> 
> The bust of Robert E. Lee, on a pedestal in the median of Monroe Street
> downtown, was found face down on the ground on March 12, 2019; the bolts
> holding it in place had been removed. It did not appear to be damaged,
> and was removed by the Sons of Confederate Veterans.[134] The bust had
> been commissioned in 1966 from Italian sculptor Aldo Pero for $6,000 by
> the defunct Laetitia Ashmore Nutt Chapter of UDC, chapter
> 1447.[135][136] In 2018 there had been conflict over the future of the
> monument, both at a Ft. Myers City Council meeting[137] and at the
> monument itself.[138]
> 
> Ft. Myers is the county seat of Lee County, Florida.
> Gainesville
> 
> Confederate monument called "Old Joe", Alachua County courthouse lawn,
> erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy[139] and unveiled
> January 20, 1904.[140] Removed from government land and returned to the
> United Daughters of the Confederacy in 2017, which relocated it to a
> private cemetery.[127]:34[141]
> Hollywood: Street signs named for Confederate Generals were removed in
> April 2018.[142][143]
> Forrest Street, named for CSA Lt. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, became
> Freedom Street.
> 
> Hood Street, named for CSA Gen. John Bell Hood, became Hope Street.
> Lee Street, named for CSA Gen. Robert E. Lee, became Liberty Street.
> 
> Jacksonville
> 
> Following a petition with 160,000 signatures, Nathan Bedford Forrest
> High School (1959), originally an all-white school named in protest
> against school desegregation, renamed Westside High School in 2014 after
> decades of controversy.[144][145][146]
> 
> Lakeland
> 
> Confederate soldier statue in downtown Munn Park, created by the McNeel
> Marble Works.[127]:34 "The United Daughters of the Confederacy paid
> $1,550 to erect the statue in Munn Park, the town square, on June 3,
> 1910. The city chipped in $200."[147] In May 2018, the Lakeland City
> Commission approved unanimously the removal of the statue to Veterans
> Park. However, they specified that private funds would have to cover the
> costs.[148] In six months, only $26,209 was raised, so commissioners
> voted in November "to use $225,000 in red light camera citation money to
> pay for the move."[149] A coalition of individuals and groups opposed to
> the move, including the Sons of Confederate Veterans, filed suit in
> federal court alleging that the money being used was public money, but
> the suit was dismissed in January 2019 "as a matter of law",[147] and
> the city decided to go ahead, noting that it will be moved in the
> daytime.[150] The relocation started on March 21, 2019.[151]
> 
> Orlando
> 
> Confederate "Johnny Reb" monument, Lake Eola Park. Erected in 1911 on
> Magnolia Avenue; moved to Lake Eola Park in 1917. Removed from the park
> to a public cemetery in 2017.[152][152][153]
> 
> St. Petersburg
> 
> Marker for the Stonewall Jackson Memorial Highway erected on January 22,
> 1939, was removed on August 15, 2017.[154][155]
> Tallahassee
> 
> The Confederate Battle Flag was included on the Senate seal from 1972 to
> 2016, when it was removed. It was also displayed in its chambers and on
> the Senate letterhead. In the wake of the racially motivated Charleston
> shootings, the Senate voted in October 2015 to replace the confederate
> symbol with the Florida state flag.[156] The new shield was in place in
> 2016.[157]
> 
> The Confederate Stainless Banner flag flew over the west entrance of the
> Florida State Capitol from 1978 until 2001, when Gov. Jeb Bush ordered
> it removed.[158]
> 
> Memoria In Aeterna, now in Brandon Family Cemetery, Brandon, Florida
> Tampa
> In 1997, county commissioners removed the Confederate flag from the
> Hillsborough County seal. In a compromise, they voted to hang a version
> of the flag in the county center. Commissioners voted in 2015 to remove
> that flag. In 2007 the county stopped honoring Confederate History Month.
> 
> In June 2017, the Hillsborough County School Board started a review of
> how to change the name of Robert E. Lee Elementary School in east
> Tampa.[159] In September, 2017, the school was seriously damaged by fire
> of accidental origin. Teachers and students were transferred, and the
> school with this name went out of existence.[160]
> 
> Memoria In Aeterna ("Eternal Memory"), Old Hillsborough County
> Courthouse, in 2017 Annex to the current Courthouse. "The monument is
> comprised of two Confederate soldiers: one facing north, in a fresh
> uniform, upright and heading to battle, and the other facing south, his
> clothes tattered as he heads home humbled by war.[159][161] Between them
> is a 32-foot-tall obelisk with the image of a Confederate flag chiseled
> into it."[162] It was called "one of the most divisive symbols in
> Hillsborough County".[163] It was first erected in 1911 at Franklin and
> Lafayette Streets, and moved to its former location, in front of the
> then-new county courthouse, in 1952.[159] After voting in July 2017 to
> move the statue to the small Brandon Family Cemetery in the suburb that
> bears its name (Brandon, Florida), the County Commission announced on
> August 16 that the statue would only be moved if private citizens raised
> $140,000, the cost of moving it, within 30 days. The funds were raised
> within 24 hours. The following day Save Southern Heritage, Veterans'
> Monuments of America, and United Daughters of the Confederacy filed a
> lawsuit attempting to prevent the statue's relocation.[164] On September
> 5, 2017, a Hillsborough administrative judge denied their request for an
> injunction. Removal of the monument, which took several days, began the
> same day.[163] It was cut into 26 pieces to enable its removal.[163] It
> was moved on September 5, 2017, to the Brandon Family Cemetery; the
> county paid half the $285,000 cost.[161][165]
> 
> A 60 feet (18 m) x 30 feet (9.1 m) Confederate flag—when erected, the
> largest such flag ever made—at the privately-owned Confederate Memorial
> Park, placed so as to be visible at the intersection of I-4 and I-75,
> just east of Tampa (actually Seffner, Florida), was removed on June 1,
> 2020, by its owner, the Sons of Confederate Veterans, after threats to
> burn it were made on social media.[166]
> West Palm Beach
> 
> Confederate monument, Woodlawn Cemetery (1941), located at the front
> gate, directly behind an American flag. "The only one south of St.
> Augustine, likely the only Confederate statue in Palm Beach and Broward
> counties, said historian Janet DeVries, who leads cemetery tours at
> Woodlawn." Vandalized several times. Removed and placed in storage by
> order of Mayor Jeri Muoio on August 22, 2017, since its owner, the
> United Daughters of the Confederacy, had not claimed it despite
> notification.[167][168] "Believed by local historians to be the last
> Confederate monument in Palm Beach County."[169][170]
> Jefferson Davis Middle School. Renamed Palm Springs Middle School in
> 2005.[171]
> 
> Georgia
> 
> State flag: From 1956 to 2001 the state flag of Georgia incorporated the
> Confederate battle flag. The current (2018) flag incorporates a less
> familiar version of the Confederacy's first flag, the Stars and Bars.
> Confederate Memorial Day and Robert E. Lee Day:
> Georgia removed the Confederate references in 2015; they are now known
> as "State Holidays."[172][173]
> 
> Athens:
> 
> A portrait of Robert E. Lee was removed from a building on the campus of
> the University of Georgia by the Demosthenian Literary Society.[174]
> 
> Atlanta:
> 
> Confederate Ave was renamed United Ave after the neighbourhood organized
> for a change in 2019.[175]
> Sylvania: The Screven County Confederate Dead Monument was pulled off
> its pedestal and "virtually destroyed" between August 30 and 31, 2018.
> The monument had been erected on Confederate Memorial Day, April 26,
> 1909, and moved to the city cemetery in the 1950s when the city turned
> the downtown Main Street park – where the monument was originally
> located – into a parking lot. The Georgia Division of the Sons of
> Confederate Veterans is offering a $2,000 reward for the arrest and
> conviction of the those involved; the reward was subsequently increased
> to $10,000.[176] A photo of the destroyed monument shows a flagpole with
> a Confederate flag.[177]
> 
> Indiana
> 
> Indianapolis:
> On June 8, 2020, following the protests in response to the killing of
> George Floyd, the Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument was removed
> from Garfield Park and dismantled. It originally marked a mass grave for
> Confederate soldiers who died at Camp Morton, but was relocated away
> from the grave in 1912.
> Kansas
> Wichita
> Confederate Flag Bicentennial Memorial (1962, removed 2015). The
> Confederate battle flag had been displayed at the John S. Stevens
> Pavilion at Veterans Memorial Plaza near downtown since 1976, when it
> was placed there in a historical flag display as part of the nation's
> bicentennial. The flag was removed July 2, 2015 by order of Mayor Jeff
> Longwell.[178][179]
> 
> Kentucky
> 
> Florence:
> Boone County High School. The mascot for the school was Mr. Rebel, a
> Confederate general who stands tall in a light blue uniform, feathered
> cap, and English mustache. It was removed in 2017.[180]
> 
> Frankfort
> 
> Statue of Jefferson Davis, Kentucky Capitol Rotunda, 1936. (Jefferson
> Davis was born in Kentucky.) In 2015, the all-white[181] state Historic
> Properties Advisory Commission voted against removing the statue.[182]
> In 2017 several prominent Republicans called for its removal.[183] It
> was removed on June 13, 2020.[184]
> 
> Lexington
> 
> John C. Breckinridge Memorial, Fayette County Courthouse, 1887.[185] In
> November 2015, a committee, the Urban County Arts Review Board, voted to
> recommend removal of both the John Hunt Morgan Memorial and the John C.
> Breckinridge Memorial.[185] The city council approved the removal on
> August 17, 2017.[186][187] They were removed October 17, 2017 with the
> plan to relocated both to Lexington Cemetery .[188] On July 24, 2018,
> this was accomplished. [189]
> 
> John Hunt Morgan Memorial, Fayette County Courthouse, 1911.[185] Removed
> October 17, 2017 and placed in Lexington Cemetery on July 24, 2018 (see
> above)[190] [189]
> 
> Louisville
> The Confederate Monument in Louisville statue was dedicated in 1895 and
> was placed next to the University of Louisville on city property. It was
> removed and re-located to a riverfront park in Brandenburg, Kentucky in
> December 2016.[191] The cost of the move was $600,000.[192]
> John B. Castleman Monument, Cherokee Triangle, 1882. In June 2020, the
> statue was removed to be relocated to Castleman's burial site in Cave
> Hill Cemetery.[193]
> Louisiana
> 
> 
> Jefferson Davis Monument in New Orleans, Louisiana; left: the monument
> being unveiled February 22, 1911; right: after removal of statue and
> pedestal May 11, 2017.
> Baton Rouge: Robert E. Lee High School, renamed Lee High School in 2016.
> In 2018 Lee Magnet High School. Sports teams, formerly Rebels, are now
> Patriots.[194]
> 
> New Orleans: The first Confederate monuments removed in 2017 were those
> of New Orleans, although it was in 2015 that the City Council ordered
> their removal. Court challenges were unsuccessful. The workers who moved
> the monuments were dressed in bullet-proof vests, helmets, and masks to
> conceal their identities because of concerns about their
> safety.[195][196] According to Mayor Landrieu, "The original firm we'd
> hired to remove the monuments backed out after receiving death threats
> and having one of his cars set ablaze."[197] "Opponents at one point
> found their way to one of our machines and poured sand in the gas tank.
> Other protesters flew drones at the contractors to thwart their
> work."[198] The city said it was weighing where to display the monuments
> so they could be "placed in their proper historical context from a dark
> period of American history."[199] On May 19, 2017, the Monumental Task
> Committee,[200] an organization that maintains monuments and plaques
> across the city, commented on the removal of the statues: "Mayor
> Landrieu and the City Council have stripped New Orleans of nationally
> recognized historic landmarks. With the removal of four of our
> century-plus aged landmarks, at 299 years old, New Orleans now heads
> into our Tricentennial more divided and less historic." Landrieu replied
> on the same day: "These statues are not just stone and metal. They are
> not just innocent remembrances of a benign history. These monuments
> purposefully celebrate a fictional, sanitized Confederacy; ignoring the
> death, ignoring the enslavement, and the terror that it actually stood
> for."[201]
> 
> A seven-person Monument Relocation Committee was set up by Mayor LaToya
> Cantrell to advise on what to do with the removed monuments. The statue
> of Jefferson Davis, if their recommendation is implemented, will be
> moved to Beauvoir, his former estate in Biloxi, Mississippi, that is now
> a presidential library and museum.[202] The Committee recommended that
> the statues of Robert E. Lee and P.G.T. Beauregard be placed in
> Greenwood Cemetery, near City Park Avenue and Interstate 10 (where three
> other Confederate generals are entombed). However, this conflicts with a
> policy of former mayor Mitch Landrieu, who had directed that they never
> again be on public display in Orleans Parish. The Battle of Liberty
> Place Monument will remain in storage.[203]
> 
> Battle of Liberty Place Monument – Erected 1891 to commemorate the
> Reconstruction Era Battle of Liberty Place (1874) and celebrate
> Louisiana's White League. Removed April 24, 2017. The workers were
> dressed in flak jackets, helmets and scarves to conceal their identities
> because of concerns about their safety. Police officers watched from a
> nearby hotel.[204]
> 
> Jefferson Davis Monument – Cost $35,000 and was unveiled February 22,
> 1911, the 50th anniversary of his inauguration as President of the
> Confederacy, by the Jefferson Davis Monument Association, which was
> formed in 1898. "The unveiling...was preceded by 'an impressive military
> parade' led by Major Allison Owen. Veterans of the Army of Tennessee,
> Washington Artillery, Camp Henry St. Paul, Army of Northern Virginia,
> veterans from the Soldiers Home, National Guard and the Boy Scouts all
> attended. A group of 500 schoolgirls formed a living Confederate
> flag."[205] Removed May 11, 2017.[206]
> 
> General Beauregard Equestrian Statue – Erected in 1913. Removed May 17,
> 2017.
> 
> Robert E. Lee monument – Erected in 1884. Statue atop a 60-foot (18 m)
> column with 12-foot (3.7 m) on an earthen mound. Statue removed May 19,
> 2017.
> 
> Renaming of public schools. In 1992 the School Board announced plans to
> rename schools named after owners of slaves, if the parents, teachers,
> and children of each school approved. Other public schools renamed, not
> directly relevant to the war, were originally named for Marie Couvent (a
> black slave owner), George Washington, William C. C. Claiborne, Samuel
> J. Peters, Étienne de Boré, William O. Rogers ("a general school
> superintendent who didn't believe blacks should be educated after the
> 5th grade"), and Edward Douglass White, Jr., a Supreme Court chief
> justice who voted to uphold the "separate but equal" doctrine in Plessy
> v. Ferguson.[207]
> 
> Jefferson Davis Elementary School renamed in 1993 for Ernest "Dutch"
> Morial, New Orleans' first African-American mayor.
> P.G.T. Beauregard Junior High School was renamed Thurgood Marshall
> Middle School, after the first black Supreme Court justice.
> Robert E. Lee Elementary School renamed for Ronald McNair, the black
> astronaut killed in the 1986 Challenger explosion.
> J. P. Benjamin School, named for Jefferson Davis's secretary of war, was
> renamed for African-American educator and civil rights activist Mary
> McLeod Bethune.
> 
> Charles Gayarre Elementary School, named for Charles Gayarré, a
> financial supporter of the Confederacy, was renamed after New Orleans
> civil rights leader Oretha Castle Haley.
> Francis T. Nicholls High School, named for the Confederate general and
> Governor of Louisiana, was renamed Frederick Douglass High School after
> the abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass.
> Adolph Meyer School, named for a Confederate officer and later a
> congressman, was renamed for the abolitionist Harriet Tubman.
> Benjamin Palmer School, named for a pro-slavery pastor influential in
> Louisiana's decision to secede and join the Confederacy, was renamed
> Lorraine V. Hansberry Elementary School, after the African-American
> playwright who wrote A Raisin in the Sun.
> 
> Maine
> 
> Brunswick, Maine
> Confederate plaque, Bowdoin College. Installed in 1965, removed in
> August 2017.[208]
> Maryland
> State of Maryland
> Plaque (1964): Maryland State House Trust removed a plaque from the
> Maryland State House in 2020.[209]
> Sons of Confederate Veterans Commemorative License Plate featuring the
> Confederate battle flag were revoked in 2015 after an 18-year legal
> battle.[56][210]
> 
> Baltimore
> 
> Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument (Spirit of the Confederacy),
> Mount Royal Avenue. Defaced with red paint August 13, 2017. In 2015,
> defaced with yellow paint saying "black lives matter".[211] Removed
> August 16, 2017.[212]
> Confederate Women's Monument. Charles Street and University Parkway.
> Removed August 16, 2017.[212]
> Robert E. Lee Park was renamed Lake Roland Park in 2015.[213]
> Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee Monument. On the northwestern side
> of the Wyman Park Dell, Charles Village, opposite the Baltimore Museum
> of Art, and just south of Homewood Campus of Johns Hopkins University
> (1948).[214] Removed August 16, 2017.[212][215]
> Charlotte Hall
> Plaque installed in 1993 removed from Charlotte Hall Veterans Home.[216]
> Ellicott City, Howard County
> Howard County Courthouse Confederate Monument. Dedicated in 1948.
> Removed on August 22, 2017.[217]
> Rockville
> Confederate Monument, lifesize and bronze, on a granite pedestal.
> 
> The base of the CSA monument moved from Rockville, MD, to White's Ferry,
> MD.
> It was originally donated by the UDC and the United Confederate
> Veterans, and built by the Washington firm of Falvey Granite Company at
> a cost of $3,600. The artist is unknown.[218] Inscription: "To Our
> Heroes of Montgomery Co. Maryland That We Through Life May Not Forget to
> Love The Thin Gray Line Erected A.D. 1913 / 1861 CSA 1865."[219] (Gray
> was the color of Confederate uniforms.) The dedication was on June 3,
> 1913 (Jefferson Davis's birthday),[219] and 3,000 (out of a county
> population of 30,000) attended.[220] It was originally located in a
> small triangular park[221] called Courthouse Square. In 1971, urban
> renewal led to the elimination of the Square, and the monument was moved
> to the east lawn of the Red Brick Courthouse (no longer in use as such),
> facing south.[222] In 1994 it was cleaned and waxed by the Maryland
> Military Monuments Commission.[218] It was defaced with "Black Lives
> Matter" in 2015; a wooden box was built over it to protect it.[223] The
> monument was removed in July 2017 from its original location outside the
> Old Rockville Court House to private land[221] at White's Ferry in
> Dickerson, Maryland.[224][225]
> 
> White's Ferry, Montgomery County:
> A passenger and vehicle ferry, formerly named Gen. Jubal A. Early
> (1954), connects Montgomery County, Maryland and Loudoun County,
> Virginia. Owned by White's Ferry it was named for Confederate General
> Jubal Early until June 2020. White's Ferry is the only ferry still in
> operation on the Potomac River.[226]
> 
> Massachusetts
> 
> Fort Warren, Georges Island, Boston Harbor:
> Memorial to 13 Confederate prisoners who died in captivity. Dedicated in
> 1963; removed October 2017.[227]
> Oak Bluffs, Martha's Vineyard – Two plaques place in honor of
> confederate soldiers were removed from the statue of a Union soldier by
> the town in 2019 and remounted in a contextual display in the Martha's
> Vineyard Museum.[228]
> 
> Michigan
> 
> Lowell:
> The 1935 Robert E. Lee Show Boat:[229] A campaign by Former
> Representative Dave Hildenbrand to request money from Rick Snyder's
> administration resulted in a taxpayer funded grant[230] to rebuild the
> confederate-named boat.[231] What followed was a contentious[232] and
> successful petition to change the boat's name.[233] It was demolished
> February 28, 2019.[234]
> 
> Mississippi
> 
> On June 30, 2020 the Governor Tate Reeves signed a bill which removes
> the second flag of Mississippi (1894) within 15 days from all public
> buildings and establish a new flag for the state, that will be voted by
> referendum on November.[235][236]
> "Several city and county governments and all eight of Mississippi's
> public universities have stopped flying the state flag in recent years
> amid critics' concerns that it does not properly represent a state where
> 38 percent of residents are African-American."[237][238]
> Jackson
> Davis Magnet IB School. Renamed "Barack Obama Magnet IB School" in
> 2017.[239][240]
> Oxford
> Confederate Drive renamed Chapel Lane[241]
> In 2016, the University of Mississippi marching band, called The Pride
> of the South, stopped playing Dixie. The school got rid of its Colonel
> Reb mascot in 2003.[242]
> 
> Missouri
> 
> Columbia
> In 2018, the Columbia Board of Education voted unanimously to change the
> name of Robert E. Lee Elementary School to Locust Street Expressive Arts
> Elementary School.[243]
> 
> Kansas City, Missouri
> 
> United Daughters of the Confederacy Monument on Ward Parkway. The
> memorial to Confederate women, a 1934 gift by the United Daughters of
> the Confederacy, was defaced by graffiti on Aug. 18, 2017 and boxed up
> two days later in preparation for its removal. The monument was removed
> on August 25, 2017.[244][245]
> 
> St. Louis
> 
> Memorial to the Confederate Dead (1914), removed in June 2017 from
> Forest Park. It awaits a new home outside St. Louis City and County
> limits (per agreement between the city and the Missouri Civil War Museum
> in Jefferson Barracks).[246]
> Confederate Drive (1914). Road removed and replaced with green space in
> 2017.[247]
> Montana
> 
> Confederate Memorial Fountain in Helena, Montana before removal.
> Helena
> Confederate Memorial Fountain (1916). City Council voted August 17, 2017
> to remove it. It was removed on August 18, 2017.[248][249] In its place
> is "a sign explaining how the monument came to be and what it originally
> signified." On its history, see "Montana and the Lost Cause".[250]
> 
> Nevada
> 
> Paradise:
> University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV): Until the 1970s, the school
> mascot was Beauregard, a wolf dressed in a gray military field jacket
> and Confederate cap.[251][252] Beauregard was named for CSA Gen. P.G.T.
> Beauregard.
> 
> New Mexico
> 
> The three Jefferson Davis Highway markers in the state were removed in
> 2018.[253]
> 
> New York
> New York City
> 
> Brooklyn
> 
> On August 16, 2017, the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island removed a 1912
> plaque from a tree Robert E. Lee planted between 1842 and 1847. They
> also removed a second marker erected by the United Daughters of the
> Confederacy in 1935.[254]
> New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has ordered name changes of streets named
> for Lee and Jackson in the Fort Hamilton section of Brooklyn.[255]
> 
> The Bronx
> Busts of Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee are in the Hall of Fame for
> Great Americans at Bronx Community College (formerly New York
> University). New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo has ordered their
> removal.[2][255][256]
> 
> North Carolina
> 
> See also: Silent Sam
> A state law, the Cultural History Artifact Management and Patriotism Act
> of 2015,[257] prevents local governments from removing monuments on
> public property, and places limits on their relocation within the
> property.[258] In 2017 Governor Roy Cooper asked the North Carolina
> Legislature to repeal the law, saying: "I don't pretend to know what
> it's like for a person of color to pass by one of these monuments and
> consider that those memorialized in stone and metal did not value my
> freedom or humanity. Unlike an African-American father, I'll never have
> to explain to my daughters why there exists an exalted monument for
> those who wished to keep her and her ancestors in chains."[259] "We
> cannot continue to glorify a war against the United States of America
> fought in the defense of slavery," he wrote. "These monuments should
> come down."[139] He also has asked the Department of Natural and
> Cultural Resources to "determine the cost and logistics of removing
> Confederate monuments from state property."[260][261]
> 
> After the University of North Carolina renamed Saunders Hall in 2014
> (see below), its Board of Trustees prohibited for 16 years any more
> renamings.[262]
> 
> Chapel Hill
> 
> A 1923 building at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill was
> named for William L. Saunders, Colonel in the Confederate army and head
> of the Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina. In 2014, the building was renamed
> Carolina Hall.[263]
> 
> Silent Sam, a statue erected in 1913 at the entrance to the University
> of North Carolina (today the University of North Carolina at Chapel
> Hill) as a memorial to its Confederate alumni, was pulled down by
> protesters on August 20, 2018.[264] As of November 20, 2019, the
> University has not decided whether or where the statue will be
> restored.[265][266] In her January 19, 2019 letter of resignation as
> Chancellor, Carol Folt ordered the removal of the plinth and plaques as
> a threat to public safety, as they attracted pro-Confederate
> demonstrators unconnected with the University.[267]
> 
> The Orange County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously on October
> 16, 2018, to remove the Jefferson Davis Highway designation from the
> portion of US 15 that runs through the county. A marker stands at the
> intersection of East Franklin Street (formerly the route of US 15) and
> Henderson Street, in downtown Chapel Hill, adjacent to the University of
> North Carolina. The bronze plaque and stone pedestal were not removed
> immediately because it was not clear who their owner was.[268]
> 
> Charlotte
> 
> In 2015, the Mecklenburg County Confederate Soldiers Monument (1977) was
> vandalized following the events of the Charleston church shooting on
> June 17. In July, the monument was removed from its location at the
> northwest corner of the Old City Hall for cleaning. Later that same
> month, the "Historic Artifact Management and Patriotism Act" became law
> while the monument was still located in a city-owned warehouse. With a
> technicality, city manager Ron Carlee informed the City Council that he
> was relocating the monument to the Confederate section of city-owned
> Elmwood Cemetery. By end of year, it was relocated, next to other
> Confederate monuments and graves.[269][270][271]
> 
> Durham:
> 
> Confederate Soldiers Monument at the Old Durham County Courthouse,
> erected in 1924. It was pulled down and severely damaged during a
> protest on August 17, 2017. Eight individuals were arrested for
> destroying the memorial, but the charges were later
> dropped.[259][272][273][274] The monument is being stored in a county
> warehouse.[275] In early 2019, a joint city-county government committee
> to consider what to do with the damaged statue, recommended that it be
> displayed indoors in its crumpled state. "The committee said displaying
> the statue in its current damaged form would add important context. The
> proposal would leave the statue's pedestal in place and add outdoor
> markers honoring Union soldiers and enslaved people." The proposal needs
> approval from the Durham County Commission. Durham County maintains that
> the Cultural History Artifact Management and Patriotism Act of 2015 does
> not apply, since the law does not address damaged monuments.[276]
> Statue of Robert E. Lee in the Duke Chapel, Duke University. Installed
> in the 1930s in consultation with "an unnamed Vanderbilt University
> professor."[clarification needed][277] Defaced in August 2017.[278][279]
> After vandalism, removed August 19, 2017.[280][281]
> Julian S. Carr Junior High School, for whites only, built in 1928,
> closed in 1975. The building became part of the formerly all-white
> Durham High School, which closed in 1993. Since 1995 the buildings are
> used by the Durham School of the Arts.[282] On August 24, 2017, the
> Board of the Durham Public Schools voted unanimously to remove Carr's
> name from the building.[283]
> 
> Fayetteville:
> 
> On June 27, 2020, the 1902 Confederate Monument was removed from its
> location between the intersection of East and West Dobbin Avenue,
> Morganton Street, and Fort Bragg Road, in the Haymount neighborhood. The
> decision of its removal was done by its owner, the J.E.B. Stuart Chapter
> of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC), in an effort so the
> monument would not be vandalized.[284] It is not known if it will be
> returned, relocated or stay in storage indefinitely. This was its third
> location, originally located at the intersection of Grove, Green, Rowan,
> and Ramsey Streets; it moved to the northeast corner of the square in
> 1951 due to road realignments. In 2002, the statue was then moved to its
> last location, by the UDC, believing the original site lost its charm
> becoming to commercialized.[285]
> 
> Greenville:
> 
> The Pitt County Confederate Soldiers Monument sits on the Pitt County
> Courthouse grounds in Greenville. It was erected on November 13, 1914.
> On June, 15, 2020, the Pitt County Board of Commissioners voted to
> remove the monument to a temporary location immediately, and work toward
> a permanent relocation.[286]
> 
> Hillsborough:
> 
> The building that currently houses the Orange County Historical Museum,
> at 201 N. Churton St., was built in 1934 and housed the (whites only)
> public library. The UDC donated $7,000 towards its construction, and it
> was named the Confederate Memorial Library. In 1983, after the library
> (now the Orange County Public Library) moved into a larger facility, the
> Museum moved in. The word "Library" was removed from the lettering over
> the front door, but "Confederate Memorial" remained. In 2015, the
> Hillsborough Town Board voted to remove the words.[287]
> 
> Old Chatham County Courthouse, Pittsboro, North Carolina (1908)
> 
> Louisburg:
> 
> The Louisburg Town Council voted, in emergency session on June 22, 2020,
> on a compromise to remove the Confederate Monument (1914) from its
> location on North Main Street and relocate it to a municipal cemetery
> and placed among the graves of the Confederate soldiers it
> memorializes.[288]
> 
> Oxford:
> 
> On June 24, 2020, the 34-foot (10 m) Granville County Confederate
> Monument (1909) was removed from its location in front of the Richard
> Thornton Library, next to the Granville County Revolutionary War
> Monument (1926). The Granville Board of Commissioners made the decision
> as they believed there was a credible threat that it would be forcably
> removed and possible violent protest. The monument would be placed in
> storage until a new location was determined. This was the second
> location of the monument; it was first located in front of the Granville
> County Courthouse till 1971, when it was moved to the library as a
> compromise from the Oxford Race Riot.[289]
> 
> Pittsboro:
> 
> Confederate Soldiers Monument (1907), Old Chatham County Courthouse;
> erected by Winnie Davis Chapter, UDC.[290] In 2019, there were "months"
> of discussion about what to do with it, including "multiple late-night
> Chatham County Board of Commissioners meetings". There were citizens'
> groups calling for its removal ("Chatham for All") and for leaving it
> alone. As it is privately owned (by the UDC), the statute protecting
> public Civil War monuments does not apply, said the County. In July,
> 2019, the local UDC chapter and the county "signed a memorandum of
> understanding, agreeing to 'meet, cooperate, and work together in good
> faith to develop a mutually agreeable framework for "reimagining" the
> monument.'" In an August 12 statement, the UDC said the statue was given
> by the UDC to the county, which now owns it, "notwithstanding the
> statement on the south side of the statue carved in granite", the state
> statute does apply, and "is inappropriate that we re-imagine the statue
> in any way".[291][292] After a court ruled that the statue belonged to
> the UDC and not the county, it was removed on November 20, 2019.[293]
> 
> Raleigh
> 
> A Confederate battle flag hanging in the Old North Carolina State
> Capitol was removed in 2013.[294]
> On June 19, 2020, protesters pulled down two of the three bronze
> soldiers on the 75-foot (23 m) Confederate monument at the state
> Capitol, with one of the statues hung by its neck from the
> streetlight.[295] The following day, Governor Cooper gave the orders
> that all three Confederate monuments, located on the Capitol grounds, to
> be removed for public safety. Two of the three monuments, the Women of
> the Confederacy (1914) and a statue of Henry Lawson Wyatt (1912), were
> removed that day and moved into storage.[296][297] The third, what
> remains of the monument to fallen Confederate soldiers (1895) was
> removed from June 21–23. Governor Cooper laid blame to the 2015 law as
> creating legal roadblocks to removal that eventually led to the
> dangerous incidents that happened.[298][299] The two cannons that
> flanked 75-foot Confederate monument were relocated to Fort Fisher on
> June 28.[300]
> 
> Reidsville
> 
> From 1910 to 2011, the monument stood in Reidsville's downtown area. In
> 2011, a motorist hit the monument, shattering the granite soldier which
> stood atop it. Placing the monument back in the center of town sparked a
> debate between local officials, neighbors and friends—which resulted in
> it being placed at its current site—the Greenview Cemetery.[301]
> 
> Rocky Mount
> 
> On June 2, 2020, the City Council of Rocky Mount voted to remove the
> Nash County Confederate Monument (1917). The land, which the monument
> was located on, will be vacated by the city, reverting ownership to
> Rocky Mount Mills.[302]
> 
> Salisbury
> 
> On June 16, 2020, the Salisbury City Council voted to remove the Fame
> Confederate Monument (1909), located on at the intersection of West
> Innes and Church Streets, and relocate it to the Old Lutheran Cemetery,
> where 175 tombstones for Confederate soldiers were installed in 1996. On
> June 22, an agreement was signed with the Robert F. Hoke Chapter of the
> United Daughters of the Confederacy to which they will assist on its
> removal, storage and relocation.[303]
> 
> Wilmington
> 
> In the early morning of June 25, 2020, in what has been described as a
> surprise move, the City of Wilmington removed the Confederate Memorial
> (1924) and the George Davis Monument (1911). The city's twitter page
> posted at 5:28am "In accordance with NC law, the city has temporarily
> removed two monuments from the downtown area. This was done in order to
> protect the public safety and to preserve important historical
> artifacts."[304] It is not known where the monuments are being stored or
> what the future plans for them will be.[305][306]
> 
> Winston-Salem
> 
> The Confederate Soldiers Monument (1905),[307] formerly in front of the
> former Forsyth County Courthouse, now private apartments, was removed on
> March 12, 2019 by the city, due to safety concerns and the property
> owner's unwillingness to maintain it. Mayor Allen Joines said that the
> statue would be moved to Salem Cemetery after being temporarily in
> storage.[308] It was vandalized with paint in August 2017 and again late
> in 2018 with the words "Cowards & Traitors" written with black
> marker.[309] The UDC, its owner, declined to move it to the Salem
> Cemetery after the city proposed it.[310] On December 31, 2018, the city
> attorney sent a letter to the UDC saying that the monument is a threat
> to public safety and calling for its removal by January 31. "And if they
> don't, we're prepared to file legal action to achieve that removal,"
> said Mayor Joines.[311] The owner of the property, Clachan Properties,
> also asked the UDC to remove it.[312]
> 
> Ohio
> 
> Columbus
> On August 22, 2017, a Confederate statue at Camp Chase was damaged, with
> its head stolen, but it was since repaired.[313]
> 
> Franklin
> Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee roadside plaque. Removed August 16–17,
> 2017.[314][315]
> 
> Willoughby:
> Willoughby South High School: In 2017, the school dropped its "Rebel"
> mascot—a man dressed in a gray Confederate military outfit—but kept the
> "Rebel" nickname.[316]
> Worthington:
> 
> An Ohio state historical marker outside the home where CSA Brigadier
> General Roswell S. Ripley was born was removed August 18, 2017.[317]
> 
> Oklahoma
> 
> Atoka: The Confederate Memorial Museum and Cemetery opened in 1986.[318]
> In 2016 its name was changed to Atoka Museum and Confederate Cemetery.[319]
> Tulsa: Robert E. Lee Elementary School, renamed Lee Elementary School in
> May, 2018, then renamed Council Oak Elementary School in August, 2018.[320]
> 
> South Carolina
> 
> Columbia
> 
> The Confederate battle flag was raised over the South Carolina
> statehouse in 1962 as a protest to desegregation. In 2000 the
> legislature voted to remove it and replace it with a flag on a flagpole
> in front of the Capitol as a monument.[321] In 2015 the complete removal
> was approved by the required 2/3 majority of both houses of the
> Legislature.[66] The flag was given to the South Carolina Confederate
> Relic Room & Military Museum.
> 
> Rock Hill
> 
> In 2017, the Confederate flag and pictures of Jackson and Lee were
> removed from the York County courthouse.[322]
> Tennessee
> The 2016 Tennessee Heritage Protection Act puts "the brakes on cities'
> and counties' ability to remove monuments or change names of streets and
> parks."[323]
> 
> Crossville
> 
> South Cumberland Elementary School: Murals painted in 2003, one of a
> large Confederate battle flag and another showing the team's mascot, the
> Rebel, triumphantly holding a Confederate battle flag while a boy in a
> blue outfit is being lynched on a tree, were altered/removed in 2018
> after it was discovered by the anti-hate organization located in
> Shelbyville.[324]
> 
> Franklin
> 
> The Forrest Crossing Golf Course, owned by the American Golf
> Corporation, changed its name to the Crossing Golf Course on September
> 22, 2017.[325] It had been named after Confederate General and Klansman
> Nathan Bedford Forrest.[325]
> 
> Removed statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest, Health Sciences Park (formerly
> Forrest Park), Memphis
> 
> Memphis
> Three Confederate-themed city parks were "hurriedly renamed" prior to
> passage of the Tennessee Heritage Protection Act[326] of 2013.
> Confederate Park (1908) was renamed Memphis Park; Jefferson Davis Park
> (1907) was renamed Mississippi River Park; and Forrest Park (1899) was
> renamed Health Sciences Park.[327][328] The vote of the City Council was
> unanimous.[329] At the time the monuments were dedicated, African
> Americans could not use those parks.[330]
> 
> Jefferson Davis Monument located in Memphis Park, 1904/1964. The city is
> suing the state to get it removed.[331][332][193] It was removed under
> police guard December 20, 2017.[193]
> 
> Nathan Bedford Forrest Monument commissioned 1901, dedicated 1905, was
> installed thanks in part to Judge Thomas J. Latham's wife.[333] It was
> located in the former Nathan Bedford Forrest Park, renamed Health
> Sciences Park in 2015. Memphis City Council officials were unanimous in
> seeking to have the statues removed, but were blocked by the Tennessee
> Historical Commission under the Tennessee Heritage Protection Act. After
> exploring legal remedies,[332] the city of Memphis decided to sell the
> two parks to a new non-profit, Memphis Greenspace, whose president was a
> county commissioner, for $1,000 each. Memphis Greenspace removed the
> statue, under police guard, the same day, December 20, 2017.[193]
> 
> [334][332][335] The Sons of Confederate Veterans sued the city,[336] but
> their suit was unsuccessful.[337]
> Statue of J. Harvey Mathes, Confederate Captain, removed December 20,
> 2017.[338]
> 
> Murfreesboro
> 
> Forrest Hall (ROTC building), Middle Tennessee State University: In
> 2006, the frieze depicting General Forrest on horseback that had adorned
> the side of this building was removed amid protests, but a major push to
> change its name failed. Also, the university's Blue Raiders' athletic
> mascot was changed to a pegasus from a cavalier, in order to avoid
> association with General Forrest.[339]:605
> 
> Confederate Memorial Hall, now known as Memorial Hall, Vanderbilt
> University
> .
> Nashville
> 
> Confederate Memorial Hall, Vanderbilt University, was renamed Memorial
> Hall on August 15, 2016. Since the building "was built on the back of a
> $50,000 donation from the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1933",
> the university returned to them its 2017 equivalent, $1.2 million.[340]
> Prior to this, Vanderbilt was involved in a lawsuit, dating at least
> back to 2005, with the United Daughters of the Confederacy. "Michael
> Schoenfeld, Vanderbilt's vice chancellor for public affairs, said he and
> other university officials had gotten death threats over his school's
> decision."[341]
> 
> On June 4, 2020, Montgomery Bell Academy announced plans to remove the
> statue of Sam Davis (1999), which was completed a few days later.[342][343]
> 
> Sewanee (Sewanee: The University of the South):
> Confederate flags were removed from the Chapel in the mid-1990s
> "reportedly to improve acoustics".[344]
> A portrait of Leonidas Polk was moved from Convocation Hall to Archives
> and Special Collections in 2015. However "two other portraits of Polk
> currently hang in different locations on campus. One can easily find
> Polk's image and influence all over Sewanee."[345]
> Kirby-Smith Monument (1940). Smith was, after the war, a Sewanee
> professor of botany and mathematics. Plinth defaced with "Elevate People
> of Color" and "Elevate Women" in 2018. Removed to Graveyard in 2018, at
> request of Smith's descendants.[346]
> 
> Texas
> 
> Arlington:
> 
> Six Flags Over Texas theme park: In August 2017 it removed the Stars and
> Bars Confederate Flag, after flying it for 56 years with the other flags
> that have flown over Texas. In the 1990s the park renamed the
> Confederacy section the Old South section and removed all Confederate
> Battle Flags.[347]
> 
> Austin:
> 
> Children of the Confederacy plaque, erected in 1959 and located inside
> the State Capital, with the assertion that "the War Between the States
> was not a rebellion, nor was its underlying cause to sustain slavery."
> The plaque was removed between January 11 and 13, 2019 after a unanimous
> vote by the Texas State Preservation Board, chaired by Governor Greg
> Abbott.[348][349] Calls for its removal started in 2017 by then House
> Speaker Joe Straus, in a letter to the State Preservation Board that
> oversees the Capitol grounds,[350][351] in which he was joined by 40
> other lawmakers.[352]
> 
> The Texas Confederate Museum closed in 1988. It was from its opening in
> 1903 until 1920 in a room on the first floor of the Capital. It then
> moved to the adjacent Old Land Office Building, where it remained until
> 1998, when the building was vacated for renovation. The Museum was not
> permitted to return. (The building is now the Capital Visitors Center.)
> It never reopened as it never found another home. Its collections are
> now divided between the Haley Memorial Library and History Center in
> Midland and the Texas Civil War Museum in White Settlement, a suburb of
> Fort Worth.
> 
> Robert E. Lee Elementary School (1939) was renamed for local
> photographer Russell Lee in 2016.[353] He was a prominent photographer
> with the Farm Security Administration and the first Professor of
> Photography at the University of Texas.
> Johnston High School: Named for Albert Sidney Johnston, Confederate
> general killed in the Battle of Shiloh. The school closed in 2008;
> Eastside Memorial High School is now (2017) at that location.[354]
> Jeff Davis Avenue. The Austin City Council voted unanimously to rename
> the street for William Holland, born a slave, an educator who served one
> term in the Texas Legislature and became a Travis County commissioner.[355]
> 
> Robert E. Lee Road. The Austin City Council voted unanimously to rename
> the street, whose signs had been defaced, for Azie Morton, the only
> African American to hold the office of Secretary of the Treasury.[355]
> University of Texas
> 
> In May 2015, the student government at the University of Texas at Austin
> voted almost unanimously to remove a statue of Jefferson Davis that had
> been erected on the campus's South Mall.[356][357] Beginning shortly
> after the Charleston church shooting of June, 2015, "black lives matter"
> was written repeatedly in bold red letters on the base of the statue.
> Previous messages had included "Davis must fall" and "Liberate U.T."
> (the University of Texas).[358] The University of Texas officials
> convened a task force to determine whether to honor the students'
> petition for removal of the statue. Acting on the strong recommendation
> of the task force, UT's President Gregory L. Fenves announced on August
> 13, 2015 that the statue would be relocated to serve as an educational
> exhibit in the university's Dolph Briscoe Center for American History
> museum.[359] He said: "it is not in the university's best interest to
> continue commemorating him [Davis] on our Main Mall."[360] Legal action
> by the Sons of Confederate Veterans was unsuccessful.[360] The statue
> was removed on August 30, 2015.[361]
> 
> After the removal of the Jefferson Davis statue in 2015 there were four
> remaining Confederate statues left on the South Mall at the University
> of Texas, portraying Generals Robert E. Lee and Albert Sidney Johnston,
> and Confederate Postmaster John H. Reagan. They were dedicated in 1933.
> On August 20–21, 2017 the university removed the three Confederate
> statues from the Austin campus grounds and relocated them to a
> museum.[362][363] The decision was inspired by the Unite the Right rally
> August 10–11 in Charlottesville.[364] At the same time, a statue of
> Texas Governor James Hogg was also removed, although he had no direct
> link with the Confederacy. In 2018 it was announced that it would be
> reinstalled at a different location.[365]
> 
> IDEA Allan School, a charter school, was renamed IDEA Montopolis in
> 2018. It had been named for Confederate Army officer John T. Allan. Four
> other related properties in Austin are being similarly renamed.[366]
> In 2019, Lanier High School was renamed Navarro High School in honor of
> 2007 graduate Juan Navarro, a U.S. Army officer killed in Afghanistan.
> Sidney Lanier was best known as a musician and poet, but had served as a
> private in the CSA.[367]
> Dallas:
> Removal of the Confederate War Memorial in Dallas was approved by the
> Dallas City Council in February of 2019,[368] but a citizens' group
> filed lawsuits, and the planned removal was blocked indefinitely later
> that year by the Fifth Court of Appeals of Texas.[369] On June 11, 2020,
> the city filed an emergency motion for immediate permission to remove
> the monument, citing the possibility of serious injury to protesters if
> the monument is toppled during a planned rally at the site.[370] It was
> removed on June 24, 2020.[371]
> 
> In 2016, the John B. Hood Middle School renamed itself, with the
> concurrence of the Dallas Independent School District Board of Trustees,
> the Piedmont Global Academy.[240]
> 
> Robert E. Lee statue (1936) located in Lee Park along Turtle Creek
> Boulevard. Dedicated in 1936 to celebrate the Texas Centennial
> Exposition. Removed September 14, 2017 after the city council voted 13–1
> to remove it.[372][373][374] The city considered lending it to the Texas
> Civil War Museum in White Settlement, the only local institution willing
> to accept it, but declined because it would not be displayed in a
> historical context the Dallas City Commission found acceptable.[375] In
> June, 2019, the city sold it in an online auction for $1,435,000, on
> condition that it not be displayed in the Dallas–Fort Worth area.[50]
> William L. Cabell Elementary School, named after William Lewis Cabell,
> was renamed Chapel Hill Preparatory in 2018.
> 
> Stonewall Jackson Elementary School (1939) in Lower Greenville was
> renamed Mockingbird Elementary School in 2018, after Mockingbird Street
> on which it is located.[376]
> 
> Robert E. Lee Elementary School was renamed Geneva Heights Elementary
> School in 2018.[377]
> Robert E. Lee Park: The park was temporarily renamed "Oak Lawn Park"
> until a permanent name can be approved.[378][379]
> Lee, Gano (Richard Montgomery Gano), Stonewall, Beauregard, and Cabell
> (William Lewis Cabell, mayor of Dallas) streets are currently named for
> Confederate Generals. They will be renamed at a future date.[380]
> 
> Fort Worth:
> 
> Granite marker remembering pioneer banker and Confederate soldier
> Khleber Miller Van Zandt, after the war commander of the
> trans-Mississippi division of the United Confederate Veterans. Removed
> on August 18, 2017 and given to the Texas Civil War Museum in White
> Settlement, Texas, a Fort Worth suburb.[381]
> Granite marker remembering a violent east Texas Ku Klux Klansman,
> Confederate Brig. Gen. H.P. "Hinchie" Mabry. Removed on August 18, 2017
> and given to the Texas Civil War Museum.[381]
> 
> Garland:
> 
> South Garland High School removed various Confederate symbols in 2015. A
> floor tile mosaic donated by the Class of 1968 and a granite sign in
> front of the school were replaced. Both had incorporated the Confederate
> flag, which was part of the school's original coat of arms. In addition,
> the district has dropped "Dixie" as the tune for the school fight
> song.[382] The school changed its Colonel mascot's uniform from
> Confederate gray to red and blue in 1991.[383]
> 
> 
> Houston:
> Dowling Street. Named for Confederate commander Richard W. Dowling.
> Renamed Emancipation Avenue in 2017. The street leads to Emancipation
> Park. The site originally was the only municipal park available to
> blacks, who pooled their money in 1872 to buy the property to celebrate
> their freedom.[384]
> In 2016, Jackson Middle School was renamed for Hispanic community
> activist Yolanda Black Navarro.[385]
> Lee High School (1962). Originally known as Robert E. Lee High School,
> district leaders dropped the "Robert E." from the school's title to
> distance the school from the Confederate general.[386] School officials
> changed the name to Margaret Long Wisdom High School in 2016.[385]
> Westbury High School changed the nickname of its athletic teams from the
> "Rebels" to the "Huskies."[387]
> Lakeside, Tarrant County
> The "smallest Confederate monument", two small Confederate flags, was
> removed from Confederate Park in August, 2017.[388]
> Midland: Prior to 2002, the Commemorative Air Force was the Confederate
> Air Force.[389]
> 
> San Antonio:
> 
> Confederate Soldiers' Monument, dedicated April 28, 1899, located in
> Travis Park next to The Alamo.[390] Removed September 1,
> 2017.[391][392][393]
> Robert E. Lee High School renamed LEE (Legacy of Education Excellence)
> High School, reportedly to preserve the school's history and minimize
> the expense of renaming, in 2017.[240]
> Utah
> St. George: Confederate statue The Rebels (1983; removed 2012), Dixie
> State University.[394]
> 
> Vermont
> 
> Brattleboro:
> Brattleboro Union High School. Until 2004, the school mascot was Colonel
> Reb, a Confederate plantation owner.[395]
> South Burlington:
> South Burlington High School Confederate themed Captain Rebel mascot
> (1961), use of the Confederate Battle Flag, and playing of Dixie almost
> immediately sparked controversy during the Civil Rights era and every
> decade since. The school board voted to retain the name in 2015 but to
> change it in 2017. "The Rebel Alliance", a community group opposed to
> changing the mascot has led two successful efforts to defeat the school
> budget in public votes as a protest.[396][397] The students choose the
> "Wolves" and rebranding is proceeding.[398]
> 
> Virginia
> 
> Statewide
> Confederate History Month (April) last celebrated in 2000.[399]
> Lee-Jackson Day (January 17) was last celebrated in 2020. On February 6,
> 2020, Virginia passed legislation ending celebration of Lee-Jackson day:
> a state holiday commemorating Robert E Lee and Thomas "Stonewall"
> Jackson.[400] The holiday was replaced with Election Day and signed into
> law by Virginia Governor Ralph Northam.[401]
> 
> Alexandria
> 
> In 2017, a portrait of Robert E. Lee (born in Alexandria) that hung in
> the City Council chambers was moved to the Lyceum, a local history
> museum.[402]
> 
> In 2017, the Vestry of Christ Church (Alexandria) voted unanimously to
> remove from the sanctuary plaques honoring Washington and Lee, placed
> there just after Lee's death in 1870, saying they "make some in our
> presence feel unsafe or unwelcome."[403]
> 
> In 2017, "[a] hotel on King Street removed a plaque that had been bolted
> to the wall of the building for decades and gave an incomplete account
> of the first war-related deaths after the Union invaded Alexandria on
> May 24, 1861. The marker, posted in 1929 by the Sons and Daughters of
> Confederate Veterans, memorialized the first Southerner killed by the
> Union, belying the fact that he had first shot and killed a Northern
> colonel on the property."[402]
> 
> In 2020, the Appomattox statue (1899) was removed. Dedicated to the
> Confederate dead and placed in the middle of the intersection of
> Washington and Prince Streets, in 2016 the mayor and city council voted
> unanimously for it to be moved to a museum.[404] The statue was removed
> and put into storage in June 2020 by its owners, the United Daughters of
> the Confederacy.[405]
> 
> Arlington
> 
> Jefferson Davis Highway (U.S. 1) was renamed Richmond Highway in 2019.[406]
> Bailey's Crossroads
> J. E. B. Stuart High School (1958), named for Confederate general J. E.
> B. Stuart. Following protests by students and alumni that began in June
> 2015, the school board voted in July 2017 to rename the school as
> "Justice High" by the beginning of the 2019 school year.[240] The new
> name took effect July 1, 2018.[407]
> 
> Lee sculpture in Charlottesville, Virginia, covered in black tarp
> following the Unite the Right rally
> 
> Charlottesville
> 
> Lee Park, the setting for an equestrian statue of Robert E. Lee, was
> renamed Emancipation Park on February 6, 2017. In July, 2018 it was
> renamed again, to Market Street Park.
> On February 6, 2017, the Charlottesville City Council also voted to
> remove the equestrian statue of Lee. In April, the City Council voted to
> sell the statue. In May a six-month court injunction staying the removal
> was issued as a result of legal action by the Sons of Confederate
> Veterans and others.[408][409] The prospect of removal, as well as the
> park renaming, brought numerous white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and other
> alt-right figures to the Unite the Right rally of August, 2017, in which
> there were three fatalities. In June 2016 the pedestal had been spray
> painted with the words "Black Lives Matter",[410] and overnight between
> July 7 and 8, 2017, it was vandalized by being daubed in red paint.[411]
> On August 20, 2017, the City Council unanimously voted to shroud the
> statue, and that of Stonewall Jackson, in black. The Council "also
> decided to direct the city manager to take an administrative step that
> would make it easier to eventually remove the Jackson statue."[412] The
> statues were covered in black shrouds on August 23, 2017.[413] By order
> of a judge, the shrouds were removed in February, 2018.
> On September 6, 2017, the city council voted to remove a statue of
> Confederate Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson from Emancipation Park.[414]
> Jackson Park, named for Stonewall Jackson, was renamed Justice
> Park.[415] In July, 2018, it was renamed a second time, to Court Square
> Park.
> The University of Virginia Board of Visitors (trustees) voted
> unanimously to remove two plaques from the university's Rotunda that
> honored students and alumni who fought and died for the Confederacy in
> the Civil War. The University also agreed "to acknowledge a $1,000 gift
> in 1921 from the Ku Klux Klan and contribute the amount, adjusted for
> inflation, to a suitable cause."[416]
> Doswell
> Major amusement park Kings Dominion operated the popular "Rebel Yell"
> roller coaster from the park's 1975 opening until 2017. The ride's name
> referenced the "Rebel yell", a battle cry used by Confederate soldiers
> during the Civil War. On February 2, 2018, the park announced that the
> attraction would be renamed to "Racer 75" beginning in the 2018 season,
> although Kings Dominion did not comment on the relationship between the
> name change and the previous name's Confederate roots in its press
> release.[417]
> 
> Fairfax County
> 
> Former J. E. B. Stuart High School reopened as Justice High School in
> September 2018. The school is near Munson Hill, Stuart's headquarters.
> It was given Stuart's name in 1958 as part of the county's "massive
> resistance" against the U.S. Supreme Court order to end racial
> segregation of public schools.[407][418][419]
> Front Royal
> 
> The segregation academy John S. Mosby Academy, named for Confederate
> hero John S. Mosby, was founded in 1959 as an all-white school. It
> closed in 1969.
> Hampton
> 
> Robert E. Lee Elementary School, closed 2010.[420]
> Lexington
> 
> In 2011, the City Council passed an ordinance to ban the flying of flags
> other than the United States flag, the Virginia Flag, and an
> as-yet-undesigned city flag on city light poles. Various flags of the
> Confederacy had previously been flown on city light poles to commemorate
> the Virginia holiday Lee–Jackson Day, which was formerly observed on the
> Friday before Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.[421] About 300 Confederate
> flag supporters, including members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans,
> rallied before the City Council meeting,[422] and after the vote the
> Sons of Confederate Veterans vowed to challenge the new local ordinance
> in court.[421] Court challenges have not been successful and the
> ordinance remains in effect. The city tried to prevent individuals from
> flying Confederate flags on their own property, but a 1993 federal
> injunction blocked effort.[422]
> On the campus of Washington and Lee University, a large Confederate
> battle flag and a number of related flags were removed from the Lee
> Chapel in 2014.[423][424]
> Close to Lee Chapel is the older Grace Episcopal Church, where Lee
> attended. In 1903 the church was renamed the R. E. Lee Memorial Church.
> In 2017 the church changed its name back to Grace Episcopal
> Church.[425][426]
> Lynchburg
> A statue of Confederate veteran George Morgan Jones was removed from the
> Randolph College grounds on August 25, 2017.[174][427]
> Manassas
> Stonewall Middle School (1974) was renamed Unity Braxton Middle School
> in 2020.[428]
> Stonewall Jackson High School (1973) was renamed Unity Reed High School
> in 2020.[428]
> Norfolk
> In 2020, the city removed the statue atop the Norfolk Confederate
> Monument (1907) and put it into storage, pending the dismantling of the
> rest of the monument.[429]
> Petersburg: Three schools were renamed effective July 1, 2018.[430] A
> $20,000 private donation covered the costs.[431][432]
> A.P. Hill Elementary became Cool Spring Elementary
> Robert E. Lee Elementary became Lakemont Elementary
> J.E.B. Stuart Elementary became Pleasants Lane Elementary.
> Portsmouth
> The Confederate Monument, located in the town square. Local politicians
> had been contemplating the fate of the monument since 2015, in 2017 the
> town's mayor announced that it would be relocated to a cemetery, and in
> 2018 courts were involved to determine who owned it. In June 2020,
> protesters beheaded several of the statues and tore one down, injuring a
> man in the process. The city covered up the monument as they tried to
> figure out if, and when, they could relocate the remainder.[433][434][435]
> 
> Richmond
> 
> In February 2000, the City Council voted to change the names of the J.
> E. B. Stuart and Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson bridges, which cross the
> James River, to the names of Samuel Tucker and Curtis Holt, two local
> notables in the civil rights movement.[436]
> J.E.B. Stuart Elementary School (1922) was renamed Barack Obama
> Elementary School in 2018.[437][432]
> On June 6, 2020, the Statue of Williams Carter Wickham (1891) in Monroe
> Park was toppled from its platform by Black Lives Matter protesters.[438]
> On June 10, 2020, protesters in the movement protesting the killing of
> George Floyd tore down the statue of Jefferson Davis on Monument
> Avenue.[54]
> On June 16, 2020, the Howitzer Monument (1892) by sculptor Caspar Buberl
> was torn down by Black Lives Matter protesters.[439]
> Roanoke
> Stonewall Jackson Middle School was renamed John P. Fishwick Middle
> School in July, 2018.[440][441]
> Staunton
> Robert E. Lee High School (1967), was renamed Staunton High School in
> 2018/2019.[442]
> Washington (state)
> Bellingham:
> 
> Pickett Bridge, commemorating an earlier wooden bridge erected by US
> Army Capt. Pickett over Whatcom Creek. Sign erected in 1920, was removed
> August 18, 2017, along with signs leading to Pickett House.[443] Signs
> leading to Pickett House were put back up September 2017. [444]
> 
> Jefferson Davis Highway marker from Blaine
> Blaine:
> A stone marker at the northernmost end of the state designating Highway
> 99 the "Jeff Davis Highway" was erected in the 1930s by the Daughters of
> the Confederacy, with State approval. It was removed in 2002 through the
> efforts of State Representative Hans Dunshee and city officials, and
> after it was discovered that the highway was never officially designated
> to memorialize Davis by the State.[445] The marker stone was moved to
> Jefferson Davis Park, a private park operated by the Sons of Confederate
> Veterans just outside Ridgefield right beside I-5.[446]
> Everett:
> In 2002, the Washington House of Representatives unanimously approved a
> bill proposed by Hans Dunshee to rename part of Washington State Route
> 99, which had been the Jefferson Davis Highway.[447] The bill, however,
> was killed by a committee of the state's Senate.[448][449] In March
> 2016, the Washington State Legislature unanimously passed a joint
> memorial that asked the state's transportation commission to designate
> the road as the "William P. Stewart Memorial Highway" to honor an
> African-American volunteer during the Civil War who later settled in the
> nearby city of Snohomish.[450] In May 2016, the transportation
> commission agreed to rename the road.[447][451]
> 
> Vancouver:
> 
> In 1998, officials of the city of Vancouver, Washington, removed a
> marker of the Jefferson Davis Highway (formerly U.S. Route 99) and
> placed it in a cemetery shed. This action later became controversial
> when the issues surrounding the Blaine marker were being discussed in
> the state legislature in 2002.[452] The marker was subsequently moved
> twice more, to eventually be placed alongside Interstate 5 on private
> land purchased for the purpose of giving this marker a permanent home in
> 2007.[453][454]
> 
> Seattle:
> 
> The Robert E. Lee Tree was one of many trees in Seattle's Ravenna Park
> dedicated to persons of note. The tree and plaque were removed in
> 1926.[455][456]
> 
> East Wenatchee
> Robert E. Lee Elementary School (1955). The school district rejected a
> name change in 2015,[457] and again in 2017.[458] In 2018 it voted to
> change the name to Lee Elementary School.[459]
> 
> West Virginia
> 
> Charles Town: It was in Charles Town, in the Jefferson County
> Courthouse, that abolitionist John Brown was tried; he was hanged
> nearby.[460] In 1986, the UDC, who oppose memorials to John Brown,
> erected at the entrance to the Jefferson County Courthouse a bronze
> plaque "in honor and memory of the Confederate soldiers of Jefferson
> County, who served in the War Between the States". The local newspaper,
> Spirit of Jefferson, and a group of local African Americans called for
> its removal.[461] On September 7, 2017, the Jefferson County Commission
> voted 5–0 to let the plaque be.[462] The group Women's March West
> Virginia attended each County Commission meeting holding signs that say
> "Remove the plaque".[463] After the 2018 elections, the composition of
> the County Commission changed; the plaque was the main issue in the
> election. On December 6, 2018, the Commission voted 3–2 to remove the
> plaque, and it was removed December 7,[464] and returned to the UDC.[465]
> 
> Wisconsin
> 
> Madison
> Confederate Rest section of Forest Hill Cemetery. This section of the
> cemetery contains the remains of more than 100 Confederate soldiers who
> died as prisoners of war at nearby Camp Randall.
> In 2015, a flag pole was removed from the section. The pole had been
> used to fly the Confederate flag for one week around Memorial
> Day.[466][467]
> In August 2017, Madison mayor Paul Soglin ordered the removal of a
> plaque and a larger stone monument, erected in 1906 with UDC
> funding.[468] The plaque, which referred to the interred Confederates as
> "valiant Confederate soldiers" and "unsung heroes", was removed on
> August 17, 2017.[466][469][470][471][472] Removal of the stone monument,
> which contains the names of the soldiers buried there, did not take
> place immediately because of legal challenges and logistical concerns.
> On October 2, 2018, the Madison City Council voted 16–2 for its removal,
> overruling a Landmark Commission's recommendation that it stay.[468]
> In January 2019, a stone cenotaph etched with the names of Confederate
> 140 prisoners of war was removed from the cemetery by the Madison Parks
> Department and transferred to storage at the Wisconsin Veterans
> Museum.[473]
> 
> Brazil
> 
> From 1975 to 1998, a version of the Confederate battle flag appeared in
> the shield and flag of Americana, Brazil, a city settled by Confederate
> expatriates.[474]
> 
> Canada
> 
> Montreal:
> In 1957, the United Daughters of the Confederacy had a plaque installed
> on the outer wall of a Hudson's Bay Company store, commemorating
> Jefferson Davis's brief stay in the city; the plaque was removed
> following the Charlottesville Unite the Right rally of August, 2017,
> under pressure from the public.[475][476]
> Toppling of statues elsewhere
> Main article: Monuments and memorials removed during the George Floyd
> protests
> As part of the worldwide George Floyd protests, members of the Black
> Lives Matter movement have also removed or defaced statues of other
> historical figures that were responsible for large-scale suffering of
> Black people. In Bristol, UK, protesters toppled a statue of slave
> trader Edward Colston, who played a prominent role in the Bristol slave
> trade, while BLM protesters in Ghent, Belgium, vandalized a statue of
> King Leopold II, the genocidal ruler who caused the deaths of millions
> of Congolese people. [477]
> 
> See also
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Removal_of_Confederate_monuments_and_memorials#National
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
TRUMP SHOULD BUY THEM ALL and place them in NATIONAL CIVIL WAR
BATTLEFIELDS and CEMETERIES where Confederates died.... where they will
be protected by FEDERAL LAW.

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