Alabama News Senators Clyde Chambliss and Bobby Singleton are sponsoring a bill that will take funds from the statewide property tax that is tied to the confederacy, to help preserve and promote black history. Alabama First Created this tax to help confederate soldiers and their widows after the war. The state has continued to collect taxes ever since. Most of the revenue is used for other purposes, but 1% goes to the state’s Confederate Memorial Park in Mountain Creek. The two senators want to sponsor a bill that will preserve park funding, but also require that Alabama spend an equal 1% on black historical sites. The bill would also establish a process to move confederate memorials removed from elsewhere, to the park.