In June 2020, Decatur’s city attorney filed a complaint asking for a judge’s permission to remove the obelisk because the attention it attracted had posed a public safety issue, the Atlanta ...

In DeKalb County where the Confederate monument stood for more than a century, protesters have invoked “good trouble” in calling for the swift removal of the obelisk. Back in 2020, the stone ...

Confederate Memorial removal (Ron Harris-AP via CNN Newsource) A Georgia judge ordered the removal of the obelisk in June 2020 on the grounds it constituted a public nuisance as a focal point of ...

The statue to the late civil rights leader and Georgia lawmaker John Lewis now stands at the very spot in Decatur Square where a monument to the confederacy stood for more than a 100 years.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The base of a massive Confederate monument in Alabama’s largest city was all that remained Tuesday after crews dismantled the towering obelisk and trucked it away in p… ...

Lewis’ statue stands in the same spot as an obelisk that was erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1908 and removed in 2020. Groups like the Beacon Hill Black Alliance for Human ...

The Society for the Historical Preservation of the 26th North Carolina Troops opposed the removal and sued, but a trial judge dismissed the lawsuit. The obelisk was dismantled before the Court of ...

In an order issued Friday afternoon, a DeKalb County judge said the Confederate monument in the Decatur square should be immediately relocated. Judge Clarence Seeliger issued the order in response ...

While both versions of the bill would require the replacement of the Springfield monument and the Confederate obelisk removed from James Weldon Johnson Park, Black’s bill would also apply to the ...

The obelisk was erected in 1909 to mark the mass grave where some 1,354 Confederate soldiers who died in the Alton Prison during the Civil War were buried.

A John Lewis statue replaces a Confederate obelisk. Here’s what to know. Ben Brasch Aug 19, 2024 Aug 19, 2024 0 ...