The process of removing the Baltimore area’s four Confederate statues—the Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument, The Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee Monument and the Confederate Women’s Monument, as well as the Roger B. Taney Monument—was expedited after the violence on Aug. 12 in Charlottesville, Virginia. While the monuments are out of sight, their ultimate fate […]
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Baltimore’s Confederate Monument Was Never About ‘History and Culture’
Americans have probably had about enough of Confederate monuments this week, but the dual equestrian statue of Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson whisked away from its pedestal Wednesday morning in Baltimore is worth examining, especially in light of President Trump’s continued fixation on the issue. Workers remove the Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. “Stonewall” […]
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Confederate Monuments Removed Overnight in Baltimore
BALTIMORE (AP) — Confederate monuments in Baltimore were quietly removed and hauled away on trucks in darkness early Wednesday, days after a violent white nationalist rally in Virginia that was sparked by plans to take down a similar statue there. This photo shows the empty pedestal of the Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. “Stonewall” […]