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A group for descendants of Confederate civil war veterans is suing to stop an exhibit at Georgia’s Stone Mountain Park focused on the site’s connections to white supremacy, slavery and segregation.
To make this carving happen, Plane founded Stone Mountain Confederate Monument Association. She planned to carve three confederate figures: Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Thomas Jonathan ...
Changes announced last week at Georgia’s Stone Mountain Park, home to the nation’s largest Confederate monument, are “the boldest step that has been taken” at the park since the state ...
A carving on Stone Mountain honoring Confederate generals is seen on May 24, 2021, in Stone Mountain, Georgia. The Stone Mountain Memorial Association board approved some minor changes in the ...
Stone Mountain’s carving — which measures 190 feet (58 meters) across and 90 feet (27 meters) tall — was completed in 1972 and shows the three Confederate leaders mounted on horseback.
April 20, 2021 Stone Mountain - Aerial photograph shows Confederate Memorial Carving at Stone Mountain Park on Tuesday, April 20, 2021. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com) By F. Sheffield Hale ...
Controversy over Georgia's Stone Mountain Confederate monument 02:42. Georgia's Stone Mountain Park — once home to the Ku Klux Klan and the site of the largest Confederate carving in the country ...
The 90-foot carving on the side of Stone Mountain in Georgia is the largest Confederate monument in the world. As the U.S. undergoes racial reckoning, the monument's future remains in doubt.
STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. - The board that oversees a park near Atlanta voted Monday for a new logo that excludes the park’s giant mountainside carving of Confederate leaders. It’s another change by ...
STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. — The Stone Mountain Memorial Association has approved a new logo and it is missing something big — the massive carving of Confederate generals. The association voted on ...
The controversy of Stone Mountain's confederate carving, in the city of the same name, is explored in a new documentary produced by the Atlanta History Center. Skip to content.