Although the Memphis Museum of Art is not a memorial in and of itself ... until the racial-justice reckoning of 2020 sparked the toppling of its Jefferson Davis statue and removal of the rest. Prior ...

The Jefferson Davis memorial that Memphis recently removed is of that vintage. It was dedicated in 1964, the year Congress passed the Civil Rights Act and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was ...

Since 2010, monuments to Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, President Jefferson Davis and Capt. J. Harvey Mathes all have been removed from Memphis parks. "Based on the ground plowed by ...

The monument and grave will join a statue of Jefferson Davis, the only president of the Confederacy, which also previously stood at the Memphis park before its removal in 2018. It was erected at ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP ... (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File) A statue of Jefferson Davis, who served as the president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865, stands outside the National Confederate ...

Memphis workers have begun ... non-profit group amid backlash of the monument memorialising the Confederate general. A statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis was also removed at that ...

The denial led the city council to pass legislation allowing it to sell parkland to Memphis ... s monument in December 2017, as well as a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

Lee to Jefferson Davis the president of ... law barring the removal of historic monuments from public areas. A judge in Nashville ruled that the city and Memphis Greenspace, the non-profit that ...

nonprofit Memphis Greenspace, immediately acted to remove a Jefferson Davis statue from what is now Fourth Bluff Park. The lesson? Cities may need to consider a variety of options for legal and ...

But the visibility of their monuments often belie the way their ... We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have." Jefferson Davis was a man of many words.

There had been talk in the past about removing the monument. But the killing of ... Nathan Bedford Forrest and Confederate President Jefferson Davis came down hours after the sale in December ...