Sentences with phrase «confederate memorials»
New York, a Northern stronghold of Unionists and abolitionists, has few Confederate memorials.
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Trump on Thursday defiantly opposed the removal of Confederate memorials and revived a debunked story about a World War I era general.
Last weekend's deadly protest in Charlottesville, Virginia, has spurred some communities to remove Confederate memorials and symbols or to consider doing so.
After New Orleans removed Confederate memorials, Brooklyn's Democratic Members of Congress called on the Army to do the same.
Defenders of Confederate memorials, including President Donald Trump, have warned against «changing history» by removing them.
Fifth, Piper highlights the controversy over Confederate memorials which «too many of us feel like they belong in a museum for education instead of on a pedestal for celebration.»
The decision came amid a larger trend of questioning Confederate memorials across the American South, given the Confederacy's legacy of violence, racism and white supremacy.
Today it is home to the West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and Blind and the nation's first Confederate Memorial in Indian Mound Cemetery.
It is, of course, more than okay to decorate the graves of Confederate fallen heroes, both on Memorial Day and Confederate Memorial Day.
Trump also suggested some of the marchers who opposed the removal of a Confederate memorial to Robert E. Lee were good people.
Late Monday night, Howard County officials removed a Confederate memorial that had stood outside of a courthouse in Ellicott City, Md. «The more appropriate place for the memorial is in a museum,» said Alan H. Kittleman, the county executive, in a post on Facebook.
Her family lived in Stone Mountain, home of the famous and controversial Confederate memorial carving.
This piece, a cut - out nearly 60 feet wide, is based on the Confederate Memorial Carving on the face of Stone Mountain, where the KKK still regularly holds rallies and has been met with resistance in recent years.
The Confederate Memorial Carving on Stone Mountain, Georgia, is a colossal, high - relief sculpture — the largest in the world — of Jefferson...
Could the Heirs of the Sculptor of the Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial Prevent Its Alteration?
Today it is home to the West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and Blind and the nation's first Confederate Memorial in Indian Mound Cemetery.
Not exact matches
As Confederate statues and memorials are being removed across the U.S. following the violence at a weekend rally by white nationalists in Charlottesville, Va., President Donald Trump took to Twitter Thursday morning to complain about the actions, calling it «sad» and saying the «culture of our great country [is] being ripped apart.»
New Orleans is continuing its purge of memorials to some of the ugliest chapters in American history by pulling down a 106 - year - old statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
With full respect of the autonomy of the local church, we call brothers and sisters in Christ who display the Confederate battle flag as a memorial... to consider prayerfully whether to limit, or even more so, discontinue its display.
However the idea of building a mosque next to ground zero is equivalent to opening a bookstore that only sells copies of «The Turner diaries» and flies a huge confederate flag two blocks from the OKC memorial.
R.E. Lee Memorial Church in Lexington, Virginia, where Robert E. Lee once served as senior warden will no longer honour the Confederate general in its name, following the vestry voting 7 - 5 to change the church's name to its previous name, Grace Episcopal Church.
Christ Church Cathedral in Cincinnati, Ohio, has also drafted a plan to study removing memorials to Confederate figures.
The poll also delved into how New Yorkers feel about Confederate statues and memorials.
A new poll finds that New Yorkers do not think Confederate statues and memorials should be taken down.
While Confederate statues and monuments around the nation get removed, defaced, covered up or toppled, some new memorials are being erected, by people who insist their only purpose is to honor Civil War soldiers who died for the South.
So, the events of the past few years — among them the violence of white supremacists in Charlottesville, the church shootings in Charleston, the national debate over Confederate flags and memorials — certainly shaped the book, especially as they emphasize the extent to which the history of our country is built around the armature of slavery and the Civil War, and how far we still are from putting those issues behind us.
In some instances, she blots out the Confederate sculpture, as if attempting to erase the history that underpins it; in others, she makes it a more explicit site for white supremacist fantasies by adding giant burning crosses, racist slogans and a memorial to Dylann Roof (the alleged murderer of nine African - Americans in a South Carolina church in June).
It explores the subject of racial violence and intimidation, incorporating imagery based on the memorial carving of Confederate leaders at Georgia's Stone Mountain into a disturbing composition of silhouetted figures.
Often that conversation has centered around memorials and monuments to Confederate leaders throughout the South.