More than 80 percent of those were removed as the result of decisions by municipalities, while the remainder were toppled by demonstrators. The vast majority were memorials to Confederate leaders or increasingly divisive figures like Columbus. The monument audit confirmed that It also emphasizes that monuments as a group have never been static, and that over time hundreds have been moved, altered, or taken down for a wide variety of reasons—from community repugnance to road construction.
Waite Rawls, retired head of the Museum of the Confederacy and the American Civil War Museum in Richmond, decried the removal of monuments, including one in Richmond to the soldiers and sailors of the rebel cause. Rawls noted that there are now more monuments to African Americans than Confederates in Richmond, pointing out that an African-American group unveiled a statue dedicated to Black emancipation and freedom on September Farber said the product might be a traditional monument, a walking trail, or a learning program.
An exhibition of the results is planned for next summer. But Thompson warns that governments seem to be rejecting change. All rights reserved. Who do American monuments honor the most? A landmark study finally has answers. A statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Virginia, is removed on September 8, A new study reveals that wealthy white men dominate the country's memorials.
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Behind the Gothic masterpiece, on the eastern tip of the island, is a small but moving memorial by French modernist architect Georges-Henri Pingusson to the , French who died in concentration camps between and Rather than rising heroically, the memorial is meant to evoke the unspeakable, anonymous drama of deportation—its entrance a descending stairway. Completed: Av. It was the only structure left standing in the area after the first atomic bomb exploded in It has been preserved in its post-explosion state and sits in Peace Memorial Park, alongside other monuments, including the Cenotaph for Atomic Bomb Victims, which was designed by Pritzker Prize winning architect Kenzo Tange.
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