Jefferson Davis holiday?
But the action, initiated by Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin, will likely come at a cost.
On Tuesday, state Attorney General Steve Marshall filed a civil lawsuit against the city, writing the move required a waiver, and without one, it has violated Alabama's monument preservation law. As such, Marshall wrote, the city is on the hook for a $25,000 fine, which would go to the state Historic Preservation Fund.
Alabama's
slaver/traitor monument preservation law. FTFY.
GoFundMe, if Birmingham wants to go that route, will cover the $25,000 in hours.
... "It's important to note that the city of Birmingham wasn't even a city during the Civil War," Woodfin said. "We don't have time to worry about something that's not working for our city and relegates black people to property and slavery. It's important that we take this down and move forward."
... Early Tuesday, the statue of a Confederate soldier in an intersection of Alexandria, Virginia, was removed by its owner, the United Daughters of the Confederacy. The removal had been planned for July, NBC Washington reported, but "given events, they accelerated it," Mayor Justin Wilson said.
He tweeted that "Alexandria, like all great cities, is constantly changing and evolving."
The United Daughters of the Confederacy did not immediately return a request for comment. Its offices in Richmond were reportedly burned early Sunday during protests. Also in the city, messages of "No More White Supremacy" and "Black Lives Matter" were written on a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
On Tuesday night, elected officials in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, an hour east of Raleigh, voted to remove a marble monument honoring Confederate soldiers from a city park, NBC affiliate WRAL reported.
The state capitol grounds in Raleigh saw a Confederate statue defaced with anti-racist and anti-police messages, as well.
In recent days, statues were also reportedly vandalized in Chattanooga, Tennessee; Norfolk, Virginia; Charleston, South Carolina and at the University of Mississippi.
... Adam H. Domby, in his 2020 book "The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory," tackled how the issue of "fabricated narratives" about the cause of the Civil War, the Reconstruction era and slavery still undermine the hope for racial equality today.
"Ironically, exaggerations, narrative arcs, tales, and falsehoods similar or identical to those that ex-Confederates used to justify white supremacy in 1913 are now used by monument supporters to try to detangle the Confederacy from accusations of racism," Domby, an assistant professor of history at the College of Charleston, wrote.
He told NBC News that the Confederate monuments have enduring ties to white supremacist ideology and that people still trying to protect them are feeding into a larger anti-democratic movement. He added that it's interesting to see groups such as the United Daughters of the Confederacy agree to take down monuments in this climate of reexamining systemic racism.
But "the real shift happens when monuments come down in red strongholds," Domby said.
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Soon to be a former stockbroker.
The math doesn't add up on this, though.....if she was 34 in 1924 she's older than 90. She must have been even younger than stated when she married the guy. Lucky him.