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Removal of Confederate monuments and memorials

Index Removal of Confederate monuments and memorials

For decades in the U.S., there have been isolated incidents of removal of Confederate monuments and memorials, although generally opposed in public opinion polls, and several U.S. States have passed laws over 115 years to complicate or prohibit further removals. [1]

66 relations: Albert Sidney Johnston, Albert Sidney Johnston (Coppini), American Civil War, Andy Holt (Tennessee politician), Battle of Liberty Place Monument, Brigadier General Albert Pike, Chiang Kai-shek statues, Christopher Columbus (Incrapera), Columbus Obelisk, Condoleezza Rice, Confederate Memorial Fountain (Helena, Montana), Confederate Monument (Hollywood Forever Cemetery), Confederate Monument in Louisville, Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument, Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument (Indianapolis), Confederate Soldiers Monument (Durham, North Carolina), Confederate Women's Monument, Cory Booker, Culture of the United States, Democratic Socialists of America, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Dwight sculpture), Duke Chapel, Ed Gillespie, Edmund Kirby Smith (sculpture), Faneuil Hall, General Beauregard Equestrian Statue, Good Luck America, James Stephen Hogg (Coppini), Jefferson Davis (Coppini), Jefferson Davis Highway, Jefferson Davis Park, Washington, John Henninger Reagan, Lake View Cemetery (Seattle), Lauren Woods, List of Confederate monuments and memorials, List of monuments and memorials to Sam Houston, List of The Daily Show episodes (2017), Lists of monuments and memorials, Lost Cause of the Confederacy, Memorial Hall, Vanderbilt University, Memorial to the Confederate Dead (St. Louis), Memorials to Abraham Lincoln, Michael Francis Burbidge, Modern display of the Confederate flag, Monument and memorial controversies in the United States, Nancy Pelosi, Political positions of Ted Cruz, Profile in Courage Award, Racer 75, Rhodes Must Fall, ..., Robert E. Lee (Coppini), Robert E. Lee (Proctor), Robert E. Lee Monument (New Orleans, Louisiana), Robert Edward Lee (sculpture), Rockville, Maryland, Roger B. Taney (sculpture), Roswell S. Ripley, Statue of Lenin, Seattle, Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee Monument, Tennessee Heritage Protection Act, Unite the Right rally, War memorial, William Mahone, Woodlawn Cemetery (West Palm Beach, Florida), Yawkey station, Yawkey Way. Expand index (16 more) »

Albert Sidney Johnston

Albert Sidney Johnston (February 2, 1803 – April 6, 1862) served as a general in three different armies: the Texian (''i.e.'' Republic of Texas) Army, the United States Army, and the Confederate States Army.

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Albert Sidney Johnston (Coppini)

Albert Sidney Johnston is an outdoor sculpture depicting the general of the same name by Pompeo Coppini.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.

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Andy Holt (Tennessee politician)

Andy Holt (born December 22, 1981) is a U.S. politician who serves in the Tennessee General Assembly, representing District 76, covering Weakley County and parts of Obion and Carroll Counties.

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Battle of Liberty Place Monument

The Battle of Liberty Place Monument is a stone obelisk on an inscribed plinth, formerly on display in New Orleans, in the U.S. state of Louisiana, commemorating the "Battle of Liberty Place", an 1874 attempt by Democratic White League paramilitary organizations to take control of the government of Louisiana from its Reconstruction Era Republican leadership after a disputed gubernatorial election.

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Brigadier General Albert Pike

Brigadier General Albert Pike is a public artwork in Washington, D.C. honoring Albert Pike (1809–1891), a poet, lawyer, soldier, and influential figure in the Scottish Rite of freemasonry.

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Chiang Kai-shek statues

Chiang Kai-shek statues are statues of the late Republic of China (ROC) President Chiang Kai-shek.

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Christopher Columbus (Incrapera)

Christopher Columbus is an outdoor 1992 bronze sculpture depicting Christopher Columbus by Joe Incrapera, installed in Houston's Bell Park, in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Columbus Obelisk

The Columbus Obelisk is one of three monuments to Christopher Columbus in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Condoleezza Rice

Condoleezza Rice (born November 14, 1954) is an American political scientist and diplomat.

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Confederate Memorial Fountain (Helena, Montana)

The Confederate Memorial Fountain was a historic fountain in Helena, Montana, and the only monument to The Confederacy located in the Northwestern United States.

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Confederate Monument (Hollywood Forever Cemetery)

The Confederate Monument was a memorial installed in Los Angeles' Hollywood Forever Cemetery, in the U.S. state of California honoring all confederates who had or would die on the western coast.

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Confederate Monument in Louisville

The Confederate Monument in Louisville is a 70-foot-tall monument formerly adjacent to and surrounded by the University of Louisville Belknap Campus in Louisville, Kentucky, United States.

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Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument

The Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument was installed in Baltimore, in the U.S. state of Maryland.

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Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument (Indianapolis)

The Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument (or Garfield Park Confederate Prisoner of War Monument) is a large granite monument that sits at the south entrance of Garfield Park in Indianapolis to commemorate the Confederate prisoners of war that died at Camp Morton.

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Confederate Soldiers Monument (Durham, North Carolina)

The Confederate Soldiers Monument (popularly known as "The Boys Who Wore Gray") was a memorial to the soldiers from Durham County who fought for the Confederate States of America in the American Civil War.

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Confederate Women's Monument

The Confederate Women's Monument was an outdoor memorial by J. Maxwell Miller, installed in Baltimore, in the U.S. state of Maryland in 1917.

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Cory Booker

Cory Anthony Booker (born April 27, 1969) is an American politician currently serving as the junior United States Senator from New Jersey, in office since 2013.

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Culture of the United States

The culture of the United States of America is primarily of Western culture (European) origin and form, but is influenced by a multicultural ethos that includes African, Native American, Asian, Polynesian, and Latin American people and their cultures.

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Democratic Socialists of America

Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is a multi-tendency organization of democratic socialist and left-social democratic and labor-oriented members in the United States which is often also affiliated with other political parties and/or organizations.

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Dwight sculpture)

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Duke Chapel

Duke University Chapel is a chapel located at the center of the campus of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, United States.

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Ed Gillespie

Edward Walter Gillespie (born August 1, 1961) is an American politician, strategist and lobbyist who served as the 61st Chair of the Republican National Committee from 2003 to 2005 and was Counselor to the President from 2007 to 2009 during the Presidency of George W. Bush.

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Edmund Kirby Smith (sculpture)

Edmund Kirby Smith is a bronze sculpture commemorating the United States Army officer of the same name by C. Adrian Pillars, installed in the United States Capitol Visitor Center as part of the National Statuary Hall Collection.

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Faneuil Hall

Faneuil Hall (or; previously), located near the waterfront and today's Government Center, in Boston, Massachusetts, has been a marketplace and a meeting hall since 1743.

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General Beauregard Equestrian Statue

The General Beauregard Equestrian Statue, honoring P. G. T. Beauregard, was located in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.

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Good Luck America

Good Luck America is a documentary-style original series from Snapchat about U.S. politics.

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James Stephen Hogg (Coppini)

James Stephen Hogg is an outdoor sculpture depicting the American lawyer and statesman of the same name by Pompeo Coppini.

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Jefferson Davis (Coppini)

Jefferson Davis is a statue depicting the American-Confederate politician of the same name by Pompeo Coppini.

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Jefferson Davis Highway

The Jefferson Davis Highway, also known as the Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway, was a planned transcontinental highway in the United States in the 1910s and 1920s that began in Arlington, Virginia, and extended south and west to San Diego, California; it was named for Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States, United States senator, and Secretary of War.

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Jefferson Davis Park, Washington

Jefferson Davis Park is a private park located outside Ridgefield, Washington, in the southwestern portion of the state.

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John Henninger Reagan

John Henninger Reagan (October 8, 1818March 6, 1905) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Texas.

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Lake View Cemetery (Seattle)

Lake View Cemetery is a private cemetery located in Seattle, Washington, in the Capitol Hill neighborhood, just north of Volunteer Park.

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Lauren Woods

Lauren Woods is an American artist who works with film, video, performance, and installation art that challenges the systems of oppression and power.

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List of Confederate monuments and memorials

This is a list of Confederate monuments and memorials that were established as public displays and symbols of the Confederate States of America (CSA), Confederate leaders, or Confederate soldiers of the American Civil War.

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List of monuments and memorials to Sam Houston

The following is a partial list of monuments and memorials to Sam Houston, Governor of Tennessee (1827-29), President of the Republic of Texas (1836-38 and 1841-44), and Governor of Texas (1859-61).

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List of The Daily Show episodes (2017)

This is a list of episodes for The Daily Show with Trevor Noah in 2017.

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Lists of monuments and memorials

This is a list of articles that are lists of monuments and memorials.

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Lost Cause of the Confederacy

The Lost Cause of the Confederacy, or simply the Lost Cause, is an ideological movement that describes the Confederate cause as a heroic one against great odds despite its defeat.

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Memorial Hall, Vanderbilt University

Memorial Hall (formerly known as Confederate Memorial Hall) is a historic building on the Peabody College campus of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

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Memorial to the Confederate Dead (St. Louis)

The Memorial to the Confederate Dead is a Confederate memorial in Missouri.

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Memorials to Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln, U.S. president 1861–65, has been memorialized in many town, city, and county names,Dennis, p. 194.

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Michael Francis Burbidge

Michael Francis Burbidge (born June 16, 1957) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who is the current Bishop of Arlington.

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Modern display of the Confederate flag

The display of flags used by and associated with the Confederate States of America (1861–1865) has continued, with a long interruption, into the present day, with the "Southern cross" used in the battle flag of General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia gaining the most popular recognition as a modern symbol of the Confederacy, and by extension, the Southern United States in general.

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Monument and memorial controversies in the United States

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Nancy Pelosi

Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro Pelosi (born March 26, 1940) is an American politician serving as the Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives since 2011, representing most of San Francisco, California.

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Political positions of Ted Cruz

As a member of the Republican Party, Ted Cruz is a United States Senator representing the state of Texas, and a 2016 candidate for US President.

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Profile in Courage Award

The Profile in Courage Award is a private award given to recognize displays of courage similar to those John F. Kennedy described in his book of the same name.

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Racer 75

Racer 75 (formerly known as Rebel Yell) is a racing roller coaster located at Kings Dominion amusement park in Doswell, Virginia.

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Rhodes Must Fall

Rhodes Must Fall (#RhodesMustFall) was a protest movement that began on 9 March 2015, originally directed against a statue at the University of Cape Town (UCT) that commemorates Cecil Rhodes.

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Robert E. Lee (Coppini)

Robert E. Lee is an outdoor bronze sculpture depicting the American general of the same name by Pompeo Coppini.

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Robert E. Lee (Proctor)

Robert E. Lee is a bronze sculpture depicting the Confederate general of the same name by Alexander Phimister Proctor, formerly installed at Dallas' Lee Park, in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Robert E. Lee Monument (New Orleans, Louisiana)

The Robert E. Lee Monument formerly in New Orleans, Louisiana, is a historic statue dedicated to Confederate General Robert E. Lee by noted American sculptor Alexander Doyle.

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Robert Edward Lee (sculpture)

The Robert Edward Lee is an outdoor bronze equestrian statue of Robert E. Lee and his horse Traveller.

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Rockville, Maryland

Rockville is a city and the county seat of Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, part of the Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area.

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Roger B. Taney (sculpture)

Roger B. Taney is a 19th century bronze statue of Chief Justice of the United States Roger B. Taney (1777–1864), by William Henry Rinehart.

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Roswell S. Ripley

Roswell Sabine Ripley (March 14, 1823 – March 29, 1887) was an officer in the United States Army during the Mexican–American War and, despite being Northern-born, a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the Civil War.

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Statue of Lenin, Seattle

The Statue of Lenin in Seattle is a bronze sculpture of Communist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, by Bulgarian sculptor Emil Venkov.

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Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee Monument

The Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee Monument, often referred to simply as the Jackson and Lee Monument or Lee and Jackson Monument, was a double equestrian statue of Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee, formerly located on the west side of the Wyman Park Dell in Charles Village in Baltimore, Maryland, alongside a forested hill, similar to the topography of Chancellorsville, Virginia, where Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee met before the Battle of Chancellorsville in 1863.

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Tennessee Heritage Protection Act

The Tennessee Heritage Protection Act is a state law of the U.S. state of Tennessee.

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Unite the Right rally

The Unite the Right rally, also known as the Charlottesville rally or Charlottesville riots, was a white nationalist rally that occurred in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, from August 11 to 12, 2017.

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War memorial

A war memorial is a building, monument, statue or other edifice to celebrate a war or victory, or (predominating in modern times) to commemorate those who died or were injured in a war.

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William Mahone

William Mahone (December 1, 1826October 8, 1895) was an American civil engineer, railroad executive, Confederate general, and politician.

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Woodlawn Cemetery (West Palm Beach, Florida)

Woodlawn Cemetery is located at 1301 South Dixie Highway in West Palm Beach, Florida.

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Yawkey station

Yawkey station is an MBTA Commuter Rail station in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Yawkey Way

Yawkey Way is the former name of a short street located in the Fenway–Kenmore neighborhood of the American city of Boston, Massachusetts.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Removal_of_Confederate_monuments_and_memorials

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