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Four Confederate flags have been moved from the base of a popular walk-up trail.

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Georgia park wants to ‘tell the truth’ about world’s largest Confederate monument. Others want it gone. Hannah Knowles © Ron Harris/AP The massive mountainside carving at Stone Mountain depicts Confederate leaders Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. A record number of Confederate memorials fell last year amid a push to reject racism after the killing of George Floyd — but the biggest Confederate monument in the world still stands in Georgia, just a short drive from Atlanta. Carved into a mountain, Robert E. Lee, Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson and...

ATLANTA — New proposals for Stone Mountain Park include creating an exhibit "telling the truth" about the world's largest Confederate monument — and otherwise confining tributes to the Confederacy to one designated area within Georgia's most visited tourist attraction. Bill Stephens — CEO of the Stone Mountain Memorial Association, the state authority tasked with managing the park — publicly announced the ideas Monday, on the state holiday formerly known as Confederate Memorial Day. Stephens said he realizes the proposals are unlikely to make anyone happy. Groups like the ...