TRUMP-LAND: Baltimore City, Duke University Remove Robert E. Lee Statues, just 5 of 1503 Confederate Symbols Across America...And Counting
Mobolaji Aluko
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Duke University Is Removing The Robert E. Lee Statue From Its Chapel
Students made clear they don’t want the Confederate monument.
Duke University authorized the removal of a Gen. Robert E. Lee statue from the front of its chapel Saturday after students made very clear they don’t want the Confederate monument there anymore.
Vincent Price, president of Duke University, said on the university website that he made the decision with “strong support of the Board of Trustees” after the monument was defaced on Wednesday.
“I took this course of action to protect Duke Chapel, to ensure the vital safety of students and community members who worship there, and above all to express the deep and abiding values of our university,” Price said in the post Saturday.
The Durham, North Carolina, university looks set to follow other institutions and relocate its monument. The memorial will be “preserved” in some capacity, Price said, “so that students can study Duke’s complex past and take part in a more inclusive future.”
Last Saturday, one person was killed and several others were injured during a “Unite the Right” rally around a Robert E. Lee statue in Charlottesville, Virginia. (Not that Confederate Gen. Lee himself would have wanted the statue up in the first place.)
The violent event set off a nationwide firestorm that led to the toppling of a Confederate monument outside a Durham courthouse on Monday.
On Saturday, Boston prepares for its own so-called “alt-right” rally, as police brace for thousands of counterprotesters and, possibly, white supremacist figureheads who were seen in Charlottesville over the weekend.
Ahead of the event, a holocaust memorial was vandalized in Boston on Monday night, the second vandalism to that monument this summer.
In the two years since white supremacist and Confederate flag admirer Dylann Roofmassacred nine black parishioners at a South Carolina church, the movement to remove Confederate symbols from public property has gained momentum.
So far more than 60 Confederate symbols have been removed from city- and state-owned land across the U.S., according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Recently, the city of New Orleans toppled four statues honoring the Confederacy
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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/confederate-monuments-removed-baltimore-media-103547428.html
Baltimore removes four Confederate statues after Virginia rally
By Gina Cherelus
(Reuters) - Baltimore removed four monuments to the pro-slavery Civil War Confederacy before dawn on Wednesday, working quickly so the city could avoid protests like the one organised by white nationalists that turned deadly in Charlottesville, Virginia.
The statues, including one of General Robert E. Lee and another of General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, were taken off their bases in Wyman Park Dell, beside the Baltimore Museum of Art, and carried away on a flatbed truck.
Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh said she and the city council decided to remove the monuments "quickly and quietly."
"I think any city that has Confederate statues (is) concerned about violence occurring," she told reporters.
City Councilman Brandon Scott had called for immediate action following the "domestic terrorism" carried out on Saturday by white supremacists in Charlottesville.
A 32-year-old woman was killed and 19 people were injured in the Virginia college town when an Ohio man crashed a car into anti-racist protesters.
Following the violence, calls increased for removal of Confederate memorials, flags and other symbols from public places around the United States.
Maryland was a slaveholding state during the Civil War.
In Los Angeles on Wednesday, the United Daughters of the Confederacy asked the Hollywood Forever Cemetery to remove a monument that since 1925 honoured Confederate veterans. Cemetery spokesman Theodore Hovey said the organisation made the request after hundreds of people demanded it be taken away.
"I think the owner's main concern was for the monument's well-being in light of the current atmosphere, and we were concerned about maintaining the tranquillity and peace of the cemetery," Hovey said, adding that the United Daughters would find a new location for the statue.
In Birmingham, Alabama's largest city, Mayor William Bell ordered workers on Tuesday to obscure a Confederate monument in a city park using wooden boards. The state attorney general, Steve Marshall, sued the city in response, saying the barriers broke a state law passed in May that banned local governments from moving or altering historical monuments that have been on public property for more than 40 years.
The mayor said the city will fight the lawsuit and ultimately try to get the monument removed from the park.
"When you really look at what the Confederacy and the monuments really represent, they represent acts of sedition against the United State of America," Bell said in a telephone interview.
In New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo wrote to the U.S. Army urging it to remove the names of Jackson and Lee from streets on Fort Hamilton Army Base in Brooklyn.
Cuomo said the Charlottesville violence and the tactics of white supremacists "are a poison in our national discourse, and every effort must be made to combat them."
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Twitter that, following the violence in Charlottesville, the city will conduct a 90-day review "of all symbols of hate" that may be on its property.
(Reporting by Brendan O'Brien in Milwaukee, and Gina Cherelus, Jonathan Allen and Peter Szekely in New York; Editing by David Gregorio, Toni Reinhold)
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http://www.politico.com/interactives/2017/confederate-monuments-statues-and-symbols-in-the-south/
1,503 Confederate symbols are on display across America. Most are in the South. 179 are in majority black counties.
While the symbols are a nod to the Civil War, the majority were dedicated between 1900 and 1920, when the South enacted Jim Crow laws.
By JEREMY C.F. LIN and LILY MIHALIK | 08/18/17 04:21 PM EDT
In the map below, Dots represent confederate symbols and Shaded areas represent former Confederate states
Confederate symbols in the U.S
Black population density
10% Light color to 80% dark color
More than 1,500 symbols of the Confederacy dot the U.S. countryside, according to an April 2016 review by the Southern Poverty Law Center. A POLITICO analysis found that 179, or nearly12 percent of these symbols, are in counties with a majority black population, according to 2016 census data. Forty-five of those symbols are in counties with a black population of more than 70 percent.
The majority of these symbols were dedicated between 1900 and 1920, when the South enacted Jim Crow laws aimed at resegregating society or discriminating against blacks. There was also a notable spike in new symbols during the height of the civil rights movement.
Among states with the highest proportion of African-Americans, Mississippi, whose population is 37 percent black, has more than 130 commemorations, while Louisiana, which is 32 percent black, is home to 91 symbols. Georgia, whose population is 30.5 percent black, has 175 monuments.
In
the state of Mississippi
Jackson, the state capital, has nine commemorations, including the state flag. Moss Point is a hotbed of Confederate namesakes, with 18 roads in the city named for Confederate Gens. John C. Breckinridge, James Longstreet and Robert E. Lee, among others.
In
the state of Louisiana
Louisiana has a total of 91 symbols, including 13 in Baton Rouge. New Orleans had 13 monuments at the time of the 2016 survey. At least four have been removed since that time
In
the state of Georgia
Georgia has 175 monuments, including five in Atlanta, the state capital. Savannah has 13, including 10 roadways named for Confederate leaders such as Gens. Nathan Bedford Forrest and J.E.B. Stuart.
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Emeagwali, Gloria (History)
Just goes to show that the USA is not this spectacular role model that some people have in their heads
but, like every other country on the planet, it is a country struggling to break away from a dismal and troubled past
to build a new possibility.
On my list, on a scale of 1 to 10 it scores the following, where 10 is the most commendable statistic.
Academic excellence: 7
Education and campus management: 2 (School shootings take a toll)
Economy: 5 (Debt management and high per capita debt ratio undercut a reasonably good economy)
Cultural /Soft Power: 9
Political Stability: 7 (10 if defined in terms of the absence of coups) but it is a duopoly with hegemonic corporatist overtones.
Industrial Relations: 6
Race relations: 2
We applaud the successful removal of the Baltimore statues.
Other removals to follow.
GE
History Department
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University of Texas Austin Removes Confederate Statues From Its Main Campus
The monuments “have become symbols of modern white supremacy and neo-Nazism,” the university’s president said.
General (ACSA) rank: June 14, 1861 nom, conf: August 31, 1861
- Son of Henry Lee III (Light-Horse Harry Lee).
- US Military Academy USMA, 1829; Second in class.
- Married Mary Ann Randolph Custis, great grand–daughter of Martha Washington, June 30, 1831.
- Mexican–American War, fought with Major General Winfield Scott.
- Supervised construction or improvement of Forts Pulaski, Monroe,
Hamilton and Carroll. - Superintendent of USMA, 1855–1857.
- 2nd U.S. Cavalry, lieutenant colonel, 1857–1861.
- Led U.S. Marine detachment against John Brown at Harper's Ferry, October 1859.
- Resigned as colonel, U.S. Army, April 20, 1861.
- Commander of Virginia land and naval forces.
- Major general and commander in chief of Provisional Army of Virginia, April 22, 1861–June 8, 1861.
- Led West Virginia Campaign, September 21, 1861–November 5, 1861.
- Examined South Atlantic seaboard defense, November 5, 1861–March 4, 1862.
- Military adviser to Jefferson Davis, March 13, 1862–May 31, 1862.
- Command of Army of Northern Virginia, June 1, 1862–April 9, 1865.
- Given command of all Confederate armies, January 23, 1865.
- Opposed guerrilla warfare after surrender.
- President of Washington College, later Washington and Lee University.
- Died October 12, 1870, Lexington, Virginia, aged 63.
List of memorials to Robert E. Lee
The following is a partial list of monuments and memorials to General Robert E. Lee, who served as General in Chief of the Armies of the Confederate States in 1865.
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[hide]Monuments and sculptures[edit]
- Robert E. Lee Monument (Marianna, Arkansas), listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)
- Robert E. Lee Monument (New Orleans, Louisiana), NRHP-listed: statue of Gen. Lee was removed from its pedestal in May of 2017.
- Robert Edward Lee Sculpture, Charlottesville, Virginia, NRHP-listed
- Robert E. Lee Monument (Richmond, Virginia), NRHP-listed
- Robert E. Lee, Virginia Memorial, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
- Robert E. Lee Monument, Dallas, Texas (In Lee Park)
- Robert E. Lee, Lake View Cemetery, Seattle, Washington[1]
- Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee Monument, Baltimore, Maryland: statue of General Lee and General Jackson, removed August 16, 2017.
- Robert E. Lee Monument (Durham, North Carolina): Statue of Robert E. Lee in the Duke University Chapel. Installed in the 1930s in consultation with "an unnamed Vanderbilt University professor."[clarification needed][2] Defaced August 17, 2017.[3] Removed August 19, 2017.[4][5]
- Robert E. Lee Bust, Fort Myers, Florida
- Robert E. Lee Statue, Antietam Creek, Antietam National Battlefield, Washington County, Maryland. Dedicated June 24, 2003.[6]
- Robert E. Lee Statue, South Mall, University of Texas, Austin, Texas. Dedicated 1933. One of three remaining Confederate statues left on the South Mall at the University of Texas in 2017. The statues were of Generals Robert E. Lee and Albert Sidney Johnston and Confederate Postmaster John H. Reagan. On August 20-21, 2017 the university removed the three Confederate statues from the Austin campus and relocated them to a museum.[7][8]
Buildings and roads[edit]
- Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial (U.S. National), Arlington County, Virginia
- Lee Avenue, Manassas, Virginia
- Lee Chapel, Lexington, Virginia
- Lee Circle, New Orleans, Louisiana
- Lee Drive, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
- Lee Highway (former national auto trail)
- Lee Road, Fairview Shores, Florida
- Robert E. Lee Street, Phoenix, Arizona
- Robert E. Lee Boulevard, New Orleans
- Robert E. Lee Drive, Greenwood, Mississippi
- Robert E. Lee Drive, Wilmington, North Carolina
- Robert E. Lee Drive, Conroe, Texas
- Robert E. Lee Drive, Killeen, Texas
- Robert E. Lee Drive, Marlin, Texas
- Robert E. Lee Drive, Tyler, Texas
- Robert E. Lee Drive, Jesup, Georgia
- Robert E. Lee Drive, Walterboro, South Carolina
- Robert E. Lee Blvd., Estero, Florida
- Robert E. Lee Road, Tampa, Florida
- Robert E. Lee Road, Austin, Texas
- Robert E. Lee Road, Hunt, Texas
- Robert E. Lee Lane, Macclenny, Florida
- General Robert E. Lee Road, Brunswick, Georgia
- Lee Blvd, Richland, Washington
Holidays and events[edit]
Schools[edit]
- Lees Corner Elementary School, Fairfax, Virginia
- Lee County High School, Sanford, North Carolina
- Lee-Davis High School, Mechanicsville, Virginia
- Robert E. Lee High School, Baytown, Texas
- Robert E. Lee Academy, Bishopville, South Carolina
- Robert E. Lee High School, Jacksonville, Florida
- Robert E. Lee High School, Midland, Texas
- Robert E. Lee High School, Montgomery, Alabama
- Robert E. Lee High School, Springfield, Virginia
- Robert E. Lee High School, Staunton, Virginia
- Robert E. Lee Junior High School, Monroe, Louisiana
- Robert E. Lee Junior High School, San Angelo, Texas
- Robert E. Lee Elementary School, Eagle Pass, Texas
- Robert E. Lee Middle School, Fairview Shores, Florida
- Robert E. Lee Middle School, Orlando, Florida
- Robert E. Lee High School, Tyler, Texas
- Southern Lee High School, Sanford, North Carolina
- Upson-Lee High School, Thomaston, Georgia
- Washington-Lee High School, Arlington, Virginia
Settlements[edit]
- Batesburg-Leesville, South Carolina
- Fort Lee, Virginia
- Robert Lee, Texas
Ships[edit]
Universities and colleges[edit]
- Lee College, Baytown, Texas
- Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia
U.S. counties[edit]
- Lee County, Alabama
- Lee County, Arkansas
- Lee County, Florida
- Lee County, Georgia
- Lee County, Kentucky
- Lee County, Mississippi
- Lee County, North Carolina
- Lee County, South Carolina
- Lee County, Texas
Vehicles[edit]
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