What’s Next for 1776 Commission and the Fight to Preserve US History, Don’t Rush to Failure on Iran Nuclear Negotiations, Exclusive: House Freedom Caucus Chairman Reintroduces 3 Pro-Life Bills, Can We Restore America? The Daily Signal depends on the support of readers like you. Stuart, Confederate general, from Richmond’s Monument Avenue. Someone ripped a statue of Frederick Douglass from its base in Rochester on the 168th anniversary of the celebrated abolitionist’s famous speech there titled “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” The statue suffered significant damage, authorities said. Explainer: What you should know about the Syrian Civil War, Early Southern Baptist Leader- “Take down that confederate flag!”, Why we need to transform our political instincts. 52. June 19: Ulysses S. Grant, California. Two women vandalized the base of a statue of President Ronald Reagan in Dixon with blue paint reading “BLACK LIVES MATTER.” The Dixon Police Department obtained photos of the women and asked the public to help identify them. Let’s get to 50,000! Authorities said a protest began peacefully, but quickly grew violent. Crews removed a statue of St. Junipero Serra, the 18th-century Roman Catholic priest and missionary, from outside Ventura City Hall. July 28: Confederate monument, Texas. The urban monuments we barely noticed have become … Someone decapitated a statue of Columbus outside Waterbury City Hall. 14. June 30: New York City Hall, New York, Rioters used black spray paint and tape to deface statues of three figures standing on the side of New York City Hall in Manhattan. This was the second time it was removed. July 7: Confederate monument, North Carolina. Flames charred the statue’s face and upper body. June 6: Williams Carter Wickham, Virginia. According to Bissell, “Memphis ultimately removed its Forrest Monument through a clever work-around, transferring the park in which it stood to a nonprofit.”. Vandals defaced a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee with graffiti reading “BLM” and “RACIST,” among other things. July 4: Christopher Columbus, Connecticut. Dec 31, 2020. 76. Rioters toppled Richmond’s Howitzer Monument and littered it with graffiti. Black Lives Matter protesters had defaced the memorial by spray-painting it with graffiti. The man also placed a rainbow wig on the statue’s head. 84. A mob pulled down a statue of St. Junipero Serra, an 18th-century Roman Catholic priest and missionary, that had stood in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park for over a century. It is about removing a potential distraction so we may focus clearly on the future of our city,” Mayor Sandy Stimpson, a Republican, said. Crews removed a 30-foot Confederate monument from Decatur Square in Decatur, Georgia. Overnight, workers removed the William Wing Loring monument from University of Florida property in St. Augustine, Florida. The City Council of Rocky Mount, North Carolina, approved removal of a Confederate monument featuring a soldier standing atop a tall pillar. Police arrested seven suspects shortly afterward. The monument to the founder of the Ku Klux Klan was protected by the 1954 Hague Convention, the Veterans’ Memorial Preservation and Recognition Act of 2003, and a state law forbidding the removal of any statue from state property. Police were present, but made no arrests. 107. Erecting Confederate monuments in the late-19th and early-20th centuries reinforced the so-called ‘Lost Cause’ myth of the Civil War promoted by former Confederates and sympathizers. Two of the statues include Jefferson Davis and Alexander Stephens, the president and vice president of the Confederate States of America. This is the full text of the remarks delivered last week by the mayor of New Orleans, Mitch Landrieu, upon his removal of the last of the city’s several Confederate monuments… The Cape Girardeau City Council voted 6-1 to remove the monument from Ivers Square. The memorial had been in its original location on Quintard Avenue for 115 years. Hass said The United Daughters of the Confederacy, an organization working to stop the removal of confederate monuments, perpetuates the ideals of white supremacy and racism through these monuments. June 8: John Breckinridge Castleman, Kentucky. 45. Demonstrators toppled a statue of Williams Carter Wickham, a Confederate general, in Richmond’s Monroe Park. Take it down!” as rioters toppled a bronze depiction of St. Junipero Serra in Father Serra Park in downtown LA. 62. 47. 66. Workers removed a century-old Confederate monument from McDonough Square in McDonough, Georgia, WSB-TV reported. 23. They also defaced the statue, which stood outside Thomas Jefferson High School, with graffiti reading “SLAVE OWNER,” among other things. Rioters toppled a white marble statue of Columbus and threw it into Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. They also covered the statue’s face and hands in red paint. Removal of Confederate monuments and memorials is an ongoing process in the United States since the 1960s. Workers used a crane to remove a statue of J.E.B. A city work crew removed a statue of a Texas Ranger entitled “One Riot, One Ranger” that had stood at Love Field airport in Dallas since 1963. We’ve got to find common ground.”, 18. Rioters toppled and set fire to a statue of St. Junipero Serra, an 18th-century Roman Catholic priest, outside the California State Capitol in Sacramento. Gov. A crowd cheered as rioters toppled a statue of Albert Pike, apparently the only Confederacy-related statue in Washington, D.C. Many municipalities in the United States have removed monuments and memorials on public property dedicated to the Confederate States of America (CSA), and some, such as Silent Sam in North Carolina, have been torn down by protestors. The Massachusetts-born Pike, a journalist, lawyer, and orator, resigned from the Confederate States Army in July 1862. Work crews removed a statue of Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson from Richmond’s Monument Avenue, on order of Mayor Levar Stoney, a Democrat. “We must name these instances of discrimination and never forget our past—but we should not honor them,” Mayor Joe Hogsett, a Democrat, said. Latest News. The family of the late mayor now possesses the statue, which had stood outside the Dearborn Historical Museum. In April and May 2017, the New Orleans City Council voted to remove four Confederate monuments from their city. June 22: Andrew Jackson, District of Columbia. June 19: Confederate monument, North Carolina. Ruffin, a slave owner, served as chief justice of the state’s highest court from 1833-1852. Loring was a Confederate soldier who also fought during the Mexican-American War and  later represented the United States as inspector general to the sultan of Egypt. Until recently, the third held a plaque marking the Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway. The next day, crews removed the statue from outside Albuquerque Museum. @Virginia_Allen5 Rioters attempted to tear down a statue of Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Square near the White House, but police intervened. Dreux is reported to have been the first Confederate field officer to die in the Civil War. Someone set fire to artificial flowers in the hand of a statue of the Virgin Mary at Saint Peter’s Parish Church in Dorchester. 80. The City Council voted unanimously to remove the statue two days before it was moved to a storage facility. A mob of about 15 pulled down a statue of Thomas Jefferson in Portland, Oregon, using ropes and an ax. ‘Time is overdue’: Group of Democrats calls for removal of Confederate monuments at Texas Capitol The move comes after weeks of protests … This is why Confederate monuments appeared across the entire country, even in parts thousands of miles away from the Confederacy–intending to spread a false narrative of southern pride. … For example, Confederate statues are obvious candidates for removal from public spaces, since their purpose is to venerate a cause that celebrated slavery, segregationism, and white supremacy. 95. Castleman became a brigadier general in the U.S. Army after the Civil War and was instrumental in setting up Louisville’s segregated park system, The Courier-Journal reported. 71. 2. July 4: St. Junipero Serra, California. Workers removed a statue of a Confederate soldier from outside the Rockdale County courthouse in Conyers, Georgia, the Associated Press reported. Ralph Northam, a Democrat, to remove a 60-foot statue of Lee from Monument Avenue in Richmond. People in Taiwan are asking for the removal of these monuments in an effort to be viewed as independent from China. Authorities dropped charges of first-degree criminal mischief against all four June 11. Twitter Permanently Bans Trump. Not all agree that these historical representations should be taken down. A mob toppled a statue of Charles Linn, a Confederate navy captain … Fax: (615) 242-0065, 505 Second St., N.E. The sculpture had been on display since 1883. Groups that oppose the removal of the monuments argue that eradicating the monuments effectively erases history. Here is a list of 104 statues and other monuments vandalized or removed since May 30, according to news reports. These statues have mainly been focused upon because of their connection to white supremacy and racial injustice. Trump administration slams proposal to alter historical DC monuments, says mayor should be ‘ashamed’ The DC committee called for making changes to some of the city's best-known tourist attractions July 9: Confederate monument, Georgia. By Kelley Gaskill. Police arrested and charged three men and one woman in connection with toppling a statue of Robert E. Lee outside a high school in Montgomery, Alabama, that bears the name of the celebrated Confederate general. 77. Crews removed a statue of Raphael Semmes, an admiral in the Confederate navy, in downtown Mobile, Alabama. The Sitka Assembly voted 6-1 to remove a statue of Alexander Andreyevich Baranov, a prominent Russian merchant and trader, from outside Harrigan Centennial Hall in Sitka, the former Russian capital of Alaska. CONFEDERATE MONUMENTS AND THEIR REMOVAL More than 150 years after the Civil War, there is a new drive to remove Confederate monuments. Officials decided to remove a statue of Philip Schuyler, a Revolutionary War general, from in front of Albany City Hall. Different ideas like that that don’t help bipartisan discourse,” he said referring to a proposed law in South Carolina that would penalize local politicians for removing historic monument. Virginia, where the CSA had its capital in Richmond, has the most Confederate monuments … State officials announced plans to return the monument to the United Daughters of the Confederacy. 15. In 2015, Dylann Roof murdered nine Black congregants at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Vandals did succeed in defacing the base of the statue with graffiti reading “KILLER” and “RACIST SCUM,” among other things. The board has yet to decide where it will be relocated. Police arrested three suspects in connection with the vandalism with graffiti of a 111-year-old Confederate monument in front of a United Methodist church in Cornelius. I beg the President, Vice President and the US Supreme Court to stop the purge of our American History in our cities and towns across the south. June 19: Gen. Albert Pike, District of Columbia. The Anniston, Alabama, City Council voted 4-1 to remove a memorial of Confederate war hero John Pelham, whose hometown was nearby Alexandria, as a show of support for protesters. 48. House Speaker Eileen Filler-Corn, a Democrat from Fairfax County, ordered removal of the sculptures. Some scholars see the current waves of activism that sprouted primarily from the … Citizens began a petition drive to keep the statue at its Park Square location. Sometime in June, a vandal or vandals stole a brass plaque honoring “Confederate frontiersmen” from Picacho Peak State Park in southern Arizona. Stuart, Stonewall Jackson, and Joseph E. Johnston; Matthew Fontaine Maury, Confederate naval officer; and Alexander Stephens, vice president of the Confederacy. June 8: Confederate monument, Indiana. A large crowd beheaded statues of four Confederate soldiers, all part of the same monument, in Portsmouth, Virginia. The context and location of the monument should also be given consideration. July 23: Confederate monument, Arizona. Early June: Matthias Baldwin, Pennsylvania. The death of George Floyd sparked all sorts of movements and change. 72. Since then, the debate surrounding the legitimacy of certain historical monuments has gathered pace, with the American city of New Orleans recently voting to remove statues of prominent Confederate figures of the American Civil War, such as Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis in an attempt to confront the South’s racist past [Ref: CNN]. One depicts Washington as president, the other as a Revolutionary War general. They put up monuments to T.J. because of the Declaration of Independence, which every group has used to make their place in American society. The targets of these efforts have been more haphazard and include anti-slavery activists, feminist iconography, and Christian missionaries. Vandals defaced a monument in Savannah, Georgia, honoring Confederate soldiers killed at the Battle of Gettysburg, using red paint and writing “SILENT NO MORE.” The perpetrators also broke off parts of the statue, which is in Laurel Grove Cemetery. Someone applied graffiti to deface the plaque in front of the statue of Lee at Antietam National Battlefield in Sharpsburg, Maryland. Caldwell County commissioners voted 4-1 to relocate a Confederate monument that has stood on the lawn of the county courthouse in Lockhart. A mob set fire to an iconic, 120-year-old statue of an elk atop a fountain in Portland, which also had been covered with graffiti in recent weeks. The monuments go up because, without Washington, there likely would not have been an American nation. Dedicated in 1984, the plaque described the “Battle at Picacho” in 1862 as the “westernmost battle of the Civil War.”. Arizona Gov. The removal of Confederate monuments from public spaces is a necessary step in the long struggle over symbols and public spaces in the United States, and we recognize that this is just one of many actions essential to ensuring that these spaces are open and welcoming to all Americans equally. Aug. 20: Confederate memorial, Michigan. Or they go up because of T.J.’s views on separation of church and state and other values that we hold dear. Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller, a Democrat, announced the removal of a statue of Spanish conquistador Don Juan de Oñate after the shooting of a man during rival protests around it. Crews removed a statue of Columbus from Grant Park in Chicago. 110. Recent protests centered around racial injustice and the killing of African American, like George Floyd and many others, have led to a renewed debate over the meaning and significance of historical monuments. A useful starting point might be to consider the historical circumstances of the monument’s erection and determine whether the motivation or cause for remembrance is a value that a Christian would consider worthy of memorializing. A Gwinnett community is speaking up, calling for the removal of the Confederate monument at the Gwinnett County historic courthouse. June 3: Mayor Frank Rizzo, Pennsylvania. Someone spray-painted the words “F— Colonizers” on the base of a statue honoring Mexican-American soldiers in Sacramento. “I think that to think about history through the prism of monuments can do us more harm than having overly heroic narratives.” In place of monuments, Dillard said she finds books and podcasts better able to capture the complexity of historical narratives. The statue was a gift from the city of Montpellier in southern France as a symbol of friendship. Doug Ducey, a Republican, has not announced plans to replace the marker, the Arizona Capitol Times reported. Mitch Landrieu, the mayor of New Orleans, on the removal … An email has also been sent to U.S. marshals notifying them that they should prepare to help protect national monuments. Nathalie Voit contributed to this list, which was updated and expanded July 31, Aug. 7, and Nov. 2. A mob cheered as it pulled down a statue of Christopher Columbus in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Workers dismantle the … Roy Cooper, a Democrat, ordered work crews to remove what was left of the monument. A vandal or vandals spray-painted a statue of 19th-century Quaker poet and abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier in the city named after him, writing “BLM” and “— Slave Owners” on it. Workers removed a 100-foot monument known as “Confederate Soldiers and Sailors” from Libby Hill Park in Richmond. 49. June 8: Confederate monument, Virginia. Western Kentucky University officials approved  removal of a historic sign denoting Bowling Green as the Confederate state capital of Kentucky. That mass shooting sparked renewed efforts—both legal and illegal—to remove Confederate memorials around the country. Officials planned to move the statue to Cave Hill Cemetery, where Castleman is buried. Crews removed a statue of a Confederate soldier from Hemming Park in Jacksonville, Florida. 25. The Daily Signal depends on the support of readers like you. The vandals set afire and defaced the depiction of Linn once it was on the ground. Rioters spray-painted black-power fists, a hammer and sickle, and the initials BLM over a plaque beneath the statue of Columbus in Miami. Police were looking for a third man who they said hammered and spray-painted the bust. The Henry County Board of Commissioners had voted 4-1 three weeks earlier to take down the monument after a petition garnered more than 13,000 signatures, Fox 5 in Atlanta reported. The statues are a painful reminder of past and present institutionalized racism in the United States. 12. 88. Phone: (202) 547-8105 Crews removed a statue of Henry Lawson Wyatt, believed to be the first Confederate soldier killed at the start of the Civil War, from its location in Raleigh. University officials were wary of  ongoing race-related protests and concerned about the central placement of the marker. The National Trust for Historic Preservation now supports the removal of public Confederate monuments, regardless of how old or "historic" they may be. July 14: Alexander Andreyevich Baranov, Alaska. July 11: The Virgin Mary, Massachusetts. 39. The act was a “hate crime,” Chris Marzan, spokesman for the California Mexican American Veterans Memorial Foundation, said. June 10: Christopher Columbus, Virginia. Best of Shore Perspectives: Sons of Confederate Veterans Commander discusses removal of historic monuments and current events. Protests over the killing of George Floyd have led to the removal of historical statues across the U.S. Officials in Dearborn, Michigan, removed a statue of Orville Hubbard, the city’s mayor from 1942 to 1978. Crews removed a statue of Robert E. Lee and busts of seven other Confederate leaders from the Virginia Capitol in Richmond. / The Justice Department on July 2 charged four men with defacing the statue, including a man identified as a ringleader. These monuments are a reminder of what our country had to go through to become whole again. As … Rioters had attempted to topple the statue in mid-July. This article is more than 2 years old . The removal in recent years of several monuments depicting Confederate leaders and other controversial historical figures by both politicians and unsanctioned activists have generated debate over whether their removal is justified. Gov. As we become more honest with ourselves as a nation about the darker areas of our history, we should consider what is worth celebrating. The Athens-Clarke County Commission voted unanimously to remove this Confederate memorial dating from 1872. When Monuments Are Removed Historically, an invading military presence within any nation has always led to the destruction of historical buildings, markers and monuments. The Onion looks at the pros and cons of removing historical statues. Ben Shapiro Examines Hard Questions in New Book, ‘Plot to Change America’ Driven by Identity Politics, 3 Key Concepts That Woke ‘Anti-Racists’ Believe, Uncovering the Origins of Identity Politics, It’s Fake News That the 1776 Commission Report Whitewashes America’s Past. The swift removal in 2020 of these monuments and markers from public settings comes in the wake of the killing of George Floyd, a Black man whose death in … 57. As David A. Graham says, “In other words, the erection of Confederate monuments has been a way to perform cultural resistance to black equality.”, The Veterans’ Memorial Preservation and Recognition Act of 2003, makes it a federal crime to willfully injure or destroy, or attempt to injure or destroy, any “structure, plaque, statue, or other monument on public property commemorating the service of any person or persons in the armed forces of the United States.” Similarly, vandalism and destruction of monuments on federal property is also already a federal crime.To enforce the laws, about 400 unarmed D.C. National Guardsmen were put on standby at the Washington, D.C. Armory to provide backup to National Park Police to help prevent damage at key monuments in the city. Several other Southern cities have taken similar measures and/or began debating the removal of their Civil War monuments. Take, for example, the Nathan Bedford Forrest Monument, which was removed from a park in Memphis, Tennessee, in 2017. During the protests following the death of George Floyd in the summer of 2020, many Confederate statues were damaged or toppled, as were statues of Presidents George Washington , Thomas Jefferson , and Ulysses S. Grant . Public monuments are protected by an interlocking web of international-, federal-, and state-level law intended to protect cultural property. The removal of monuments and symbols to a racist past is an important step to a more just future. Workers removed a statue of former Vice President John C. Calhoun from Marion Square in Charleston. Protesters gathered outside the Minnesota State Capitol in Saint Paul used rope to pull down a 10-foot bronze statue of Columbus. Individuals and organizations have the right to peacefully advocate for either the removal or the construction of any monument.

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