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A larger-than-life bronze statue of Jefferson ... 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 ...
But for its first few decades on the UT campus, the statue stood ... to be removed immediately. “I have decided that the best location for the Jefferson Davis statue is UT’s Briscoe Center ...
A cyclist passes a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis on the University ... Before it was unceremoniously removed from campus, UT long struggled to find the words to explain why ...
Calls to bring down UT's Jefferson Davis statue, which overlooked ... statue came to be and why it was later removed from its original spot on UT campus. In 1919, George Washington Littlefield ...
The statue was ... to be removed immediately to UT’s Briscoe Center for American History. “While every historical figure leaves a mixed legacy, I believe Jefferson Davis is in a separate ...
The Jefferson Davis statue will ... passion of students on UT's campus made the removal possible. UT public health junior Amber Magee, who was on hand to see the statue come down, said Fenves ...
A crew takes down Confederate statues on the UT-Austin campus just after midnight ... tried to block the removal of a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Disclosure: The University ...
The University of Texas at Austin is home to four vacant pedestals where statues of prominent Confederate leaders, including Jefferson Davis ... of campus history. The statue was removed during ...
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.
At the time he had Davis’ statue taken down, Fenves also removed ... of UT’s move would be to rename the Littlefield House, the Littlefield Fountain and anything else on campus named for ...
A quartet of statues honoring Confederate figures were quietly removed at ... scholarly study on campus where they can be displayed in historical context, Fenves said. The statue of Hogg, who ...