Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson will be removed from the CUNY hall of great Americans because New York stands against racism.In Ohio police are conducting an investigation after a Confederate statue in a Civil War cemetery was vandalised on August 22. The bronze statue of a Confederate soldier in Camp Chase Cemetery was toppled from its perch on an arch and decapitated. On August 17, the City Council in Lexington approved a proposal to remove two Confederate statues from the city's historic court.The mayor, Jim Gray, has 30 days to propose a new location for the statues, whose removal must be approved by the Kentucky Military Heritage Commission. People with disabilities struggle with the US Social Security Administration, which many say keeps them impoverished. We answer the most asked questions on Confederate statues and list those monuments that are being taken down.Protests against the removal of a statue of Confederate general Robert E Lee in The incident triggered a national debate about other such Confederate monuments.The first began in around 1900, as states enacted Jim Crow laws to disenfranchise African Americans and formally segregate society, and lasted until the 1920s, when there was a resurgence in the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). These include monuments, memorials, statues, public schools, highways and county and city names among other things.Of those, 718 were monuments and statues. We rely on readers like you to uphold a free press. The majority were erected between the 1890s and 1950s.According to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), The second was in the 1950s and 1960s as a backlash against the Civil Rights Movement.wake of the massacre of nine black church-goers by white supremacist , the SPLC identified 1,503 Confederate place names and symbols across the country, noting that its list was not definitive. Groups that oppose the removal of the monuments argue that eradicating the monuments effectively erases history. these monuments are meant to celebrate Southern pride, while others believe these spaces should be preserved as reminders of the country's darker moments.The struggle over the country's memory of the Confederacy and slavery has seen these historical sites become a venue for confrontations between the far right and anti-fascists.

As of April, at least 60 symbols of the Confederacy had been removed or renamed since 2015, according to the SPLC. Below are some of the Confederate statues that have recently been removed, hidden or for which there are plans to do so. The covering of the statues is intended to signal the city's mourning for who was killed when a car slammed into a crowd protesting against the August 12 rally by white supremacists and neo-NazisThe statue now stands in Oak Ridge Cemetery near Rochelle, southeast of Gainesville.A Confederate monument in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery was taken down on August 15 after the cemetery's owners received numerous requests for its removal.The statue stood since 1925 in a section of the graveyard where Confederate veterans and their families are buried.Busts of Confederate General Robert E Lee and Lieutenant General "Stonewall" Jackson will be removed from the City University of New York's Hall of Fame for Great Americans because "New York stands against racism," The Great Courses:Since there’s a lot of debate going on now in the country about the status of Confederate statues, we thought it would be interesting to talk to you both about some of the historical background of these statues. Remove Confederate monuments to America's original sin of slavery They shouldn't be destroyed by vigilantes, but it's time to take them down, especially those … Please enable cookies on your web browser in order to continue.