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Pamplin Media Group - Historic cemeteries want to leave Confederate flag out of Memorial Day honors


Historic cemeteries want to leave Confederate flag out of Memorial Day honors
May 30 2021
Policy adopted in October 2020 recommends against placing controversial flag on graves of Confederate veterans buried in Oregon.
Monday, May 31, will be the first Memorial Day after a state commission agreed last fall to a policy discouraging display of the Confederate battle flag in historic cemeteries, where thousands of Civil War veterans are buried.
In October, Oregon s Commission on Historic Cemeteries adopted a position paper recommending the cemetery groups avoid displaying the battle flag on graves at the state s nearly 1,400 historic cemeteries. The commission s decision on the controversial flag is only advisory. It cannot require cemetery organizations to prevent the Confederate flag from being displayed. ....

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A stolen Confederate monument was almost "turned into a toilet"


The New York Times and other outlets, last month a “heavy, ornately carved limestone chair” memorial to Confederate President Jefferson Davis was stolen from Old Live Oak Cemetery in Selma, Alabama. The heist was pulled off by anonymous individuals calling themselves White Lies Matter.
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“The Jefferson Davis Chair is in our possession!” reads a mock-tattered ransom note delivered to AL.com last week. For the chair’s return, “White Lies Matter, Inc.” demanded that a banner featuring a quote attributed to Black Liberation Army activist, Assata Shakur, hang for 24-hours from the United Daughters of the Confederacy’s Richmond, Virginia, headquarters beginning last Friday, April 9. The date marks the anniversary of Jefferson’s surrender to Union leaders at Appomattox. “Failure to surrender to this request by the aforementioned time will result in the chair being carved into a toilet. See enclosed photograph,” the ransom continues. ....

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Art collector backed Confederate cause


A founder of the Baltimore art collection that bears his name campaigned for the Confederate cause along with his son, a revelation that comes from a museum whose spokesman says it’s trying to show its role in inequality over the years.
The disclosures come as institutions such as the Johns Hopkins University and art museums in the U.S. and Europe are exploring and sharing shameful parts of their pasts, The Baltimore Sun reported.
During their lives and after, William Thompson Walters and his son, Henry, were praised as visionary philanthropists who developed and bequeathed the world-class art collection that’s among the city’s crown jewels. But research conducted by the Walters Art Museum made public Monday revealed William and Henry Walters pushed the Confederate cause in every way possible. ....

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