Jefferson Davis Statue Comes ... Confederacy being removed, a statue of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson is also being moved to another location on the Austin campus. In March, UT student ...

The Daily Post Jefferson Davis is Back at UT After being removed from the University of Texas at Austin’s Main Mall, the Jefferson Davis statue has found a new home on campus.

Calls to bring down UT's Jefferson Davis statue, which overlooked the Austin campus for eight decades, began shortly after the 2015 shooting inside a Charleston, S.C., church.

The Jefferson Davis statue will no longer cast a shadow on the University Texas main mall after its removal Sunday morning.. About 100 students, university staff members and other Austinites ...

A cyclist passes a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis on the University of Texas campus, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2015, in Austin, Texas. University of Texas officials are asking an Austin ...

Texas History The Return of Jefferson Davis Over a year after its removal from the University of Texas at Austin’s Main Mall, the controversial Jefferson Davis statue has found a new home on campus.

At the time he had Davis’ statue taken down, Fenves also removed a statue of President Woodrow Wilson, which stood opposite that of the Confederate leader, to maintain symmetry on the Main Mall.

In 2015, UT Austin moved statues of Jefferson Davis and Woodrow Wilson from its Main Mall following the church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina.That attack, by a white supremacist at a black ...

Separately, a 1,200-pound bronze statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis that was removed from UT’s campus in 2015 has now returned to the campus, at the Briscoe Center for American History.

A Confederate heritage group sued the University of Texas at Austin on Thursday for removing several Confederate statues from its campus earlier this week. UT-Austin spokesman J.B. Bird confirmed ...

The University of Texas at Austin is home to four vacant pedestals where statues of prominent Confederate leaders, including Jefferson Davis, once towered over the campus. Today the Davis statue ...

A statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee was removed from the University of Texas at Austin campus, early Monday morning. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) The University of Texas at Austin quietly took ...