A Mississippi Confederate monument covered for 4 years is moved
The Grenada City Council voted to move the monument in 2020, weeks after police killed George Floyd in Minneapolis.
The Grenada City Council voted to move the monument in 2020, weeks after police killed George Floyd in Minneapolis.
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 Rights and Hate Free Decatur had been pushing for the monument to be removed since the deadly 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
‘At all times, the Monument Protection Law required the County to leave the Monument in its current place.’
Efforts to remove the statue have been complicated because the general’s remains were buried beneath the monument in 1891.
The state NAACP argued that the statue was a danger to public safety and violated equal protection rights.