AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A statue of Jefferson Davis has been removed from its place on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin after a failed appeal by a Confederate heritage group.
Crews could be seen Sunday morning removing the statue of the Confederate president from its place near the university’s iconic clock tower.
University President Greg Fenves recently said the statue would be moved to a museum.
The statue has been a target of vandalism as well as criticism that it is a symbol of racism and discrimination. Confederate symbols nationwide are being re-considered following the recent mass shooting of members of a black church in Charleston, South Carolina.
A judge last week ruled against the Sons of Confederate Veterans, which sued to stop the university from moving it.
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Still fighting the war I see. Hot flash–you lost.
Maybe they shouldn’t have hired a lawyer who spent much of the the 1990s representing the Ku Klux Klan to argue their case.
Finished my celebratory dance…another one bites the dust. Hurrah!
The actress Julianne Moore and other alumni of J.E.B Stuart High School in VA are behind a change.org petition to rename it after Thurgood Marshall. Stuart was a Confederate general who was killed in battle. Good.
That’s right, J.E.B., just like the candidate named bush…
Had the JEB Stuart statue miraculously come to life–
and witnessed the ethnic makeup of the student body at UT?
It would have walked to the museum by itself.
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