Gwinnett County Historic Courthouse. Courtesy Gwinnett County.
A county in the Atlanta suburbs has removed a Confederate monument that stood on the grounds of the Gwinnett County Historic Courthouse in Lawrenceville.
The decision is the latest win for the growing movement to remove monuments to hate. But this particular monument had two especially dubious distinctions. First, it was put in place exceptionally late. According to Michael Diaz-Griffith’s “Anti-Racist Preservationist’s Guide to Confederate Monuments,” a great many monuments to the “Lost Cause” of the Confederacy were erected between 1890 and 1920, decades after the Civil War, and in the 1950s and ’60s periods marked by advances in civil rights. The Lawrenceville monument was erected in 1993 by the Sons of Confederate Veterans. (Sadly, it is not the most recent.)
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Despite recent public outcry, it’s not uncommon to see Wilmington street signs named after infamous confederate or 1898 figures. That could partly be due to a city-imposed moratorium on applications for street name changes. Now, city leaders are working to resume that process.
The hiatus was implemented in late 2019. At the time, the city was looking at a request to dedicate Third Street in honor of Major General Joseph A. McNeil. City staff raised concerns regarding Wilmington’s apparently outdated and time-consuming name changing process.
Applications continued to be put on hold throughout 2020, even as calls for changes to confederate symbols erupted in the spring. Wilmington spokesman Dylan Lee said the coronavirus pandemic delayed the city’s creation of a new policy.
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American icons like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson are on the chopping block in San Francisco after the city s public school board voted to remove their names from its buildings, a move former President Donald Trump warned would happen while he was in office.
Other prominent Americans whose names are set to be removed from school buildings include Abraham Lincoln, Paul Revere, Francis Scott Key, Herbert Hoover, and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., according to local reports.
School staff and families have until April to suggest new names for the schools.
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Senate Rejects Hawleyâs Attempt To Preserve Confederate Military Base Names Photo by Mizzou CAFNR licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0
The Senate rejected an effort by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) just before the July 4 holiday to preserve the names of U.S. military facilities named after leaders of the Confederacy.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell filed a cloture motion to end debate on the bill without a vote on Hawley s amendment.
The amendment would have eliminated a requirement â agreed to on June 11 by the Senate Armed Services Committee â that the Defense Department remove the names of Confederate generals from 10 major military bases within three years.