(UPDATE 12-3-18: UNC preserves the Silent Sam statue with a $5.3 Million building that will cost $800,000 to maintain each year.)
The University of North Carolina a trying to decide what to do with an old statue of a confederate soldier nicknamed "Silent Sam". It was torn down by protesters in August.
Alabama's much larger confederate memorial on the state capitol building grounds was dedicated on---December 7th in 1898---120 years ago on Friday.
The cornerstone was laid for Alabama's 88 foot tall confederate memorial by Jefferson Davis in1886.
The confederate flags surrounding it were removed without notice by Governor Robert Bentley. There used to a Confederate flag on top of the Capitol Building, but it was removed by Governor Folsom during a major renovation of the building in 1993, shortly after he became Governor.
The University of North Carolina a trying to decide what to do with an old statue of a confederate soldier nicknamed "Silent Sam". It was torn down by protesters in August.
From CNN Report"Silent Sam was dedicated in 1913 -- its construction at the request of the United Daughters of the Confederacy -- to remember the "sons of the University who died for their beloved Southland 1861-1865," says UNC's website.At its dedication, Confederate veteran Julian Shakespeare Carr praised the Confederate army for "sav[ing] the very life of the Anglo Saxon race in the South," according to the university's archives."
Alabama's much larger confederate memorial on the state capitol building grounds was dedicated on---December 7th in 1898---120 years ago on Friday.
The cornerstone was laid for Alabama's 88 foot tall confederate memorial by Jefferson Davis in1886.
The confederate flags surrounding it were removed without notice by Governor Robert Bentley. There used to a Confederate flag on top of the Capitol Building, but it was removed by Governor Folsom during a major renovation of the building in 1993, shortly after he became Governor.
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