The N.Y. Times is reporting the last Confederate statue is being removed from Richmond, Virginia (which became Confederate Capital after the leaders moved there after several months in Montgomery). The CBS affiliate there also has the story HERE.
“This is the last stand for the Lost Cause in our city,” (Mayor Levar Stoney) said in a statement, referring to the movement after the Civil War by former Confederates to justify the Confederacy.
Meanwhile, many many confederate monuments remain here in the first capitol.
One of several signs about the birth of the confederacy in Montgomery.One of the Jeff Davis Statues in Montgomery.
The large confederate monument outside the Alabama Capitol building.
There has been no significant movement to reduce the number of confederate icons in the city of Montgomery. In fact it was Republican Governor Kay Ivey who signed legislation protecting all of them from being removed, renamed or relocated in 2017.
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