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struggle4progress

(118,285 posts) Sun Aug 20, 2017, 02:03 PM Aug 2017

Dallas' confederate statues gone by December

Jason Whitely, WFAA 10:00 AM. CDT August 20, 2017

DALLAS – Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway said the 121-year-old Confederate War Memorial will come down by the end of the year ...

In addition to the city, Dallas ISD has two campuses named after confederate generals. Next month, the board of trustees will discuss changing the names of Robert E. Lee Elementary and Stonewall Jackson Elementary – both confederate generals.

In a separate appearance on WFAA-TV’s Inside Texas Politics, Dan Micciche, board president, was asked whether there are enough votes to change the names of the schools.

“I think there’s a consensus on the board that these names should be changed. What we need to do is figure out what the process will be,” Micciche told WFAA ...

http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/dallas-county/dallas-confederate-statues-gone-by-december/465734948

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2. Dallas black councilmen say remove statues to heal past

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By Julianne Herrera, KRON
Published: August 19, 2017, 1:30 pm

... the city’s Confederate War Memorial ... has a large stone pillar with an anonymous Confederate soldier on top. Stone statues of four leaders of the Confederacy sit at each of the pillar’s four corners. The statues are of Jefferson Davis, Gen. Robert E. Lee, Gen. Stonewall Jackson and Gen. Albert Johnston.

The monument was dedicated in 1896 by the United Daughters of the Confederacy. It was in a park but was moved to its current location in the 1960s to make way for R.L. Thornton Freeway. Petitions have circulated in the last few years and a renewed push was made this week to rename the freeway that gets its name from a former Dallas mayor and prominent member of the local Ku Klux Klan ...

http://kron4.com/2017/08/19/dallas-black-councilmen-say-remove-statues-to-heal-past/

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3. Is this Confederate statue about history or white supremacy?

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David Schechter, WFAA 11:28 PM. CDT August 18, 2017

... The period when the Lee statue went up was not right after the Civil War, which ended in 1865. It was 70 years after the war, in 1936.

At that time, blacks in Texas were kept from voting because of poll taxes that many were too poor to pay, lynching of blacks was still a reality of life in Texas and legal segregation was at its peak, shutting blacks out of economic and educational opportunities ...

“The Ku Klux Klan. Dallas is the epicenter of the rebirth of the KKK. It has the largest national chapter. The man who becomes the national leader of the Clan is a Dallas dentist,” Phillips said.

Klansman even used to get discounts at the State Fair of Texas ...

http://www.kvue.com/news/local/verify/verify-is-this-confederate-statue-about-history-or-white-supremacy/465617467

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