#. #, Traffic cones and a rope remain on the statue of Confederate General J. E. B. Stuart the morning after protesters attempted to topple it in Richmond, Virginia, on June 22, 2020. #, Fire burns on a toppled statue of Albert Pike in Washington, D.C., on June 19, 2020. October 19, 2020. Even defenders of Confederate statues are beginning to realise that it might be better to place them somewhere more discreet.■, Sign up to our free daily newsletter, The Economist today, Published since September 1843 to take part in “a severe contest between intelligence, which presses forward, and an unworthy, timid ignorance obstructing our progress.”. The shift in public opinion this suggests is evident in the response of businesses and political leaders. One of the reasons so many still stand is that at least half a dozen Southern states have passed laws banning or impeding their removal. But it seems likely that the current protests, unprecedented in their scale and, especially, in the number of white Americans who have taken part, will herald the biggest wave of removals yet. Their continued presence in America’s cities and towns, painful and insulting for so many, has been the subject of often ponderous debate. An inspection crew from the Virginia Department of General Services takes measurements as it inspects a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Virginia, on June 8, 2020. - Three statues -- those of Confederate Gen. Williams Carter Wickham, Confederate President Jefferson Davis and Christopher Columbus -- were torn down over a five-day span in June. On June 30, the Boston Art Commission, supported by Mayor Martin Walsh, voted to remove the controversial statue from the park. Are We Ready to Talk About How He Got In? A statue of America's first president, George Washington, has been torn down by rioters in Portland, Oregon. Protesters pulled down a statue of Columbushat ... a statue of Christopher Columbus that stood in Richmond’s Byrd Park was torn down ... (@sarah_turnnidge) June 7, 2020. Though such statues commemorate the rebel army that fought in the civil war to preserve states’ rights to keep slaves, most were erected later, during the Jim Crow era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. On June 30, the Boston Art Commission, supported by Mayor Martin Walsh, voted to remove the controversial statue from the park. #, A Confederate statue is seen hanging from a street post in Raleigh, North Carolina, on June 19, 2020. Copyright © The Economist Newspaper Limited 2021. #, An unidentified man walks past a toppled statue of Charles Linn, a city founder who was in the Confederate navy, in Birmingham, Alabama, on June 1, 2020. #, Houston city workers remove a statue of the Confederate soldier Dick Dowling from Hermann Park on June 17, 2020. #, People watch as protesters pull down a statue of Confederate General Albert Pike during an event to mark Juneteenth in Washington, D.C., on June 19, 2020. The statue of Confederate Gen. Albert Pike was pulled down with rope before demonstrators chanted “black lives matter” on Friday evening, June 19, 2020… Protesters tore down a statue in the former ... Robert E. Lee statue in Richmond, Virginia, on June 4, 2020, ... America and its defense of slavery have been torn down … #, A statue of Christopher Columbus lies facedown after being toppled by protesters on the grounds of the state capitol in St. Paul, Minnesota, on June 10, 2020. He was promptly sued by Alabama’s attorney-general but is expected to claim that the statue was removed in the interest of public safety. A caged statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis is hoisted out of the state capital in Frankfort, Kentucky, on June 13, 2020. Under the laws of that time, blacks in the South were forced to attend different schools. By Martin Evans, CRIME CORRESPONDENT 7 June 2020 • 10:15pm Police in Bristol are hunting a mob who toppled a 125-year-old statue of the slave trader, Edward Colston, before dumping it … #, A vandalized statue of Christopher Columbus is seen at the Bayside Marketplace in downtown Miami after a protest against racial inequality on June 10, 2020. This quickly became evident in Richmond last week. Part of the 27-foot-tall monument to Confederate soldiers outside a courthouse in eastern North Carolina has been removed after local officials gave their approval. TheAtlantic.com Copyright (c) 2021 by The Atlantic Monthly Group. A Confederate statue is seen hanging from a street post in Raleigh, North Carolina, on June 19, 2020. Reserved. This occurred mainly in the United States, but also in several other countries.Some of the monuments in question had been the … “Activists have done a really great job of educating people about the meaning of these symbols,” says Adam Domby, author of “The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory”, a book published this year. Photos of the Week: Ice Castles, Northern Lights, Inauguration Fireworks. Submit a letter to the editor or write to letters@theatlantic.com. The process is particularly striking in Richmond, capital of the Confederacy during the civil war. A relief of heroic black Union soldiers was vandalized, the hero of the Union Army was torn from his slab, and a monument to three black victims of racial violence was defiled. PUBLISHED July 1, 2020. June 22, 2020 at 7:19 p.m. UTC The United States’ frenzy of statuary iconoclasm has taken a turn into the theater of the absurd. Traffic cones and a rope remain on the statue of Confederate General J. E. B. Stuart the morning after protesters attempted to topple it in Richmond, Virginia, on June 22, 2020. Statues of Lincoln are Being Torn Down Because He Hanged Rapists and Child Killers Daniel Greenfield. After protesters pulled down two smaller statues on the same monument, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper ordered the removal of several other monuments to the Confederacy, citing public-safety concerns. #, In Frankfort, Kentucky, a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis is removed from the rotunda of the capitol building on June 13, 2020. Three weeks after the killing of George Floyd by a white police officer sparked widespread protests, Confederate statues are being defaced and torn down across America. The Stonewall Jackson statue is removed from Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, on July 1, 2020. #, This photo shows the removal of a Confederate statue in Greenville, North Carolina, on June 22, 2020. I know this is hard to believe. Heck, imagine I came up to you 5 years ago and said in 2020 a George Washington statue would be torn down, defaced, and an American flag burned on top of it. #, Splashed paint covers the Jefferson Davis Memorial in Richmond, Virginia, on June 7, 2020. The navy and the marine corps, as well as the army’s forces in South Korea, said they were banning Confederate symbols from their public spaces. During the civil unrest that followed the killing of George Floyd in May 2020, a number of monuments and memorials associated with racial injustice were vandalized, destroyed or removed, or commitments to remove them were announced. In the widespread protests that followed the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police on May 25, statues of and memorials to Confederate soldiers and generals were vandalized or torn down. George Floyd's image is projected on the Robert E. Lee Monument in Richmond, Virginia, on June 18, 2020. After Virginia’s Democratic governor had promised the state would remove the statue of Lee, a judge temporarily blocked it from doing so, citing a deed from 1890 that required Virginia to keep the statue and the site “perpetually sacred” and to “affectionately protect it”. #, George Floyd's image is projected on the Robert E. Lee Monument in Richmond, Virginia, on June 18, 2020. A statue of Christopher Columbus lies facedown after being toppled by protesters on the grounds of the state capitol in St. Paul, Minnesota, on June 10, 2020. This fits into a familiar pattern in which racist murders are followed by a flurry of statue removal. On June 10, a crowd of protesters in Richmond brought down the statue … #, The Stonewall Jackson statue is removed from Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, on July 1, 2020. Statues and monuments that have long honored racist figures are being boxed up, spray-painted — or beheaded. Local governments might want to start making those decisions more quickly than they have tended to in the past. Statues are also protected by modern-day Republican lawmakers. Edward Colston’s and countless other statues have been torn down over the course of a week, with many more scheduled to be taken down in response by city officials. Last week, after protesters tried and failed to tear down a 50-foot Confederate obelisk in Birmingham, the mayor ordered city workers to do so. Recent images of people across the Northern Hemisphere enjoying themselves in the middle of this winter. Statues Torn Down Compilation #BlackLivesMatter 2020 - YouTube After protesters pulled down two smaller statues on the same monument, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper ordered the removal of several other monuments to the Confederacy, citing public-safety concerns. A statue of Jefferson Davis lies on the street after protesters pulled it down in Richmond, Virginia, on June 10, 2020. Before toppling the statue, it was draped in … A statue from the Howitzer Monument, erected in 1892 to commemorate a Confederate artillery unit, lies on the ground after being toppled by protesters in Richmond, Virginia, on June 17, 2020. #, A statue of Jefferson Davis lies on the street after protesters pulled it down in Richmond, Virginia, on June 10, 2020. People cheer as workers remove a Confederate monument from Decatur Square in Decatur, Georgia, on June 18, 2020. A statue of Christopher Columbus rests in a shallow pond after protesters pulled it off its pedestal and dragged it across a street in Richmond, Virginia, on June 9, 2020. Some of the many statues of Christopher Columbus were targeted as well, as voices rose against historic and systemic racism and oppression. President Donald Trump criticized the Metropolitan Police Department for “not doing their job” by allowing the statue, located close to the D.C. department’s headquarters, to be torn down. The protest was led by Mike Forcia, a member of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, who called the statue a symbol of genocide. A statue of Christopher Columbus, toppled by protesters, is loaded onto a truck on the grounds of the state capitol in St. Paul, Minnesota, on June 10, 2020. #, A statue from the Howitzer Monument, erected in 1892 to commemorate a Confederate artillery unit, lies on the ground after being toppled by protesters in Richmond, Virginia, on June 17, 2020. But ways are being found around such laws. Two years ago a commission in Richmond published its recommendations on what should be done with Monument Avenue’s five Confederate statues. #, The statue of a Confederate soldier and plinth sit on a flatbed truck at the Old Capitol in Raleigh, North Carolina, on June 21, 2020. Monument Avenue once epitomised racism: in the early 20th century, estate agents marketed its elegant houses as whites-only through advertisements illustrated with the statues of the Confederate leaders that dot it. What should be done with such statues once it has been decided they must go? Photos: The Inauguration of President Joseph R. Biden Jr. George Floyd’s killing brings urgency to an old debate about their future. Protesters tear down statues of Union general ... Also torn down in the park on Friday were the statues of St. Junipero Serra and Francis Scott Key, who ... (@nbcbayarea) June 20, 2020. In June 2020, the statue of the African American tennis legend and humanitarian was ... we are still restless and torn. An unidentified man walks past a toppled statue of Charles Linn, a city founder who was in the Confederate navy, in Birmingham, Alabama, on June 1, 2020. The head of a statue of Christopher Columbus was pulled off amid protests against racial inequality in Boston on June 10, 2020. Andisheh Nouraee (@ANDISHEHNOURAEE) via Reuters, AP via Pitt County Public Information Office, Doyle Murphy / Riverfront Times via Reuters. Julian Hayter, a professor of history at the University of Richmond and a member of the committee that studied the fate of Monument Avenue’s bronzes, thinks it would be a “wasted opportunity” not to use them to teach Americans about the lasting effects of the Jim Crow era, perhaps by putting them in a museum or less prestigious public place, with signage explaining their history. Earlier this month the Arkansas chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy (established in 1894) said it would move the monument of a rebel soldier from Bentonville’s town square and put it in a private park. Virginia Governor Ralph Northam has ordered the removal of the statue, but next steps have been delayed by pending lawsuits. June 23, 2020 5:04 AM ET. We asked an art historian who studies the destruction of cultural heritage. Not only that, but they’d be working to take down Lincoln too. A Christopher Columbus statue is removed from Tower Grove Park in St. Louis on June 16, 2020. The protest was led by Mike Forcia, a member of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, who called the statue a symbol of genocide. In Frankfort, Kentucky, a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis is removed from the rotunda of the capitol building on June 13, 2020. Some went up even more recently, during the civil-rights struggle of the 1960s. Part of the 27-foot-tall monument to Confederate soldiers outside a courthouse in eastern North Carolina has been removed after local officials gave their approval. Forward:About the statue torn down and dragged down State Street It prompted Gov. #, A Christopher Columbus statue is removed from Tower Grove Park in St. Louis on June 16, 2020. #, A statue of Christopher Columbus rests in a shallow pond after protesters pulled it off its pedestal and dragged it across a street in Richmond, Virginia, on June 9, 2020. Yes, really. Davis was the president of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War. The Southern Poverty Law Centre, which monitors far-right extremists, reckons that more than 700 Confederate statues and roughly the same number of other such symbols, from flags to road names and schools, remain in public places. On June 6, a statue of Confederate Gen. Williams Carter Wickham was toppled by protesters. On June 10, a statue depicting former Confederate President Jefferson Davis was torn down. Several dozen more were removed two years later, after a white supremacist protesting against the planned removal of a statue of Lee in Charlottesville, Virginia, killed a young woman by driving a car into a crowd of counter-protesters. This photo shows the removal of a Confederate statue in Greenville, North Carolina, on June 22, 2020. MORE THAN 40 feet off the ground and weighing 12 tonnes, the colossal bronze statue of Robert E. Lee astride his horse that has stood on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, for 130 years was too high and heavy for protesters to topple. That tweet is indicative of Confederate symbols’ enduring allure for a minority of Americans. Instead they covered the stone base beneath the Confederacy’s leading general with graffiti: “Black Lives Matter”; “Down with hate”; “Uplift!” More evocative than an empty plinth, the site has become a place for activists and locals to gather. Now, activists of the movement have identified 60 statues around the UK that “celebrate slavery and racism”, calling for these to also be torn down. Three weeks after the killing of George Floyd by a white police officer sparked widespread protests, Confederate statues are being defaced and torn down across America. People film the only statue of a Confederate general, Albert Pike, in the nation's capital after it was toppled by protesters and set on fire in Washington early Saturday, June 20, 2020. Last week NASCAR, a car-racing tournament popular in the South, banned the rebel flag, which has long fluttered at its races. Photos: A Little Midwinter Fun and Beauty, What I Saw at the White House on Trump’s Last Day, Biden’s Plan to Avoid a Political Disaster. They risked lynching if they tried to register to vote and were excluded from all but low-paying jobs. Donald Trump Is Out. There doesn’t seem to be much of a standard for what statues are offensive. We want to hear what you think about this article. #, A view of the statue of Albert Pike in Washington, D.C., on June 20, 2020, the day after it was toppled Protesters pull down a statue of slave trader Edward Colston during a Black Lives Matter protest rally on College Green, Bristol, England, Sunday June 7, 2020. Statues in the firing line: Map reveals the 78 'racist' monuments from Orkney to Truro that 'Topple The Racists' campaign wants torn down in wake of Black Lives Matter protests Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney ordered the immediate removal of all Confederate statues in the city, saying he was using his emergency powers to speed up the healing process for the former capital of the Confederacy amid weeks of protests over police brutality and racial injustice. (Evan Frost/Minnesota Public Radio via AP) By Theodore Bunker | … ... What’s usually not on the menu is toppling statues, ripping down signs, or burning portraits. All Rights Work crews prepare to remove the statue of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson in Richmond, Virginia, on July 1, 2020. Virginia Governor Ralph Northam has ordered the removal of the statue, but next steps have been delayed by pending lawsuits. Its proposals—to remove that of Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy, and put explanatory signs on the others—mirrored what protesters did within hours last week: toppling Davis and covering the rest in slogans. Collected below, images of just some of the dozens of statues that have been toppled, defaced, or slated for removal across the United States over the past month. #, People cheer as workers remove a Confederate monument from Decatur Square in Decatur, Georgia, on June 18, 2020. Splashed paint covers the Jefferson Davis Memorial in Richmond, Virginia, on June 7, 2020. A statue of the former vice president and slavery advocate John C. Calhoun is removed from the monument in his honor in Marion Square in Charleston, South Carolina, on June 24, 2020. Rehearsals and preparations are underway for the upcoming inaugural ceremony of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President–elect Kamala Harris. A view of the statue of Albert Pike in Washington, D.C., on June 20, 2020, the day after it was toppled. A replica of Thomas Ball's Emancipation Memorial, erected in 1879, stands in Park Square in Boston on June 16, 2020. The statue of a Confederate soldier and plinth sit on a flatbed truck at the Old Capitol in Raleigh, North Carolina, on June 21, 2020. Work crews prepare to remove the statue of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson in Richmond, Virginia, on July 1, 2020. All rights reserved. The Republican-led Senate Armed Services Committee, meanwhile, voted to relabel ten army bases in southern states named after Confederate generals. After a gunman who was fond of posing with the Confederate flag killed nine African-Americans at a church in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015, more than 100 Confederate monuments across America were taken down over the next three years. The most recent is Alabama, which in 2017 passed legislation making it difficult to remove statues that had stood for more than 40 years. A vandalized statue of Christopher Columbus is seen at the Bayside Marketplace in downtown Miami after a protest against racial inequality on June 10, 2020. Why Kids Might Be Key to Reaching Herd Immunity, The Staggering, Heartless Cruelty Toward the Elderly. Fashion Week in Berlin, the departure of former President Donald Trump, bull-taming in India, a snow-covered Great Wall in China, diploma artwork in New York City, and much more, Scenes from a unique moment in American history. Here in Washington, D.C., last night, protesters in Lafayette Square right by the White House tried to take down a statue … Monday, October 19, 2020. Davis was the president of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War. State and local governments then began acting to remove even more Confederate statues from public places. Statues Across Country Torn Down on Thanksgiving People stand around the fallen Christopher Columbus statue at the Minnesota state Capitol in St. Paul, Minnesota on June 10, 2020. #, A statue of the former vice president and slavery advocate John C. Calhoun is removed from the monument in his honor in Marion Square in Charleston, South Carolina, on June 24, 2020. Find an overview below of all the monuments that were toppled by protesters in what feels like a much-needed cultural revolution. ... British demonstrators in Bristol tore down a bronze statue … The mayor said all of the statues that are being removed over the next several days will be put into storage for now. All the Statues That Have Been Torn Down By Anti-Racist Protests All the Statues That Have Been Torn Down By Anti-Racist Protesters, So Far 2020-06-13 11:07 in Life Words By Sarah Osei Portland protesters tear down Roosevelt, Lincoln statues during ‘Day of Rage’ By Sergio Olmos ( OPB ) , Ryan Haas ( OPB ) and Rebecca Ellis ( OPB ) Oct. 12, 2020 1:41 p.m. People watch as protesters pull down a statue of Confederate General Albert Pike during an event to mark Juneteenth in Washington, D.C., on June 19, 2020. #, An inspection crew from the Virginia Department of General Services takes measurements as it inspects a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Virginia, on June 8, 2020. President Donald Trump defended the manifestly unpatriotic practice of calling military bases after vanquished rebels, tweeting that he would not countenance renaming “these Magnificent and Fabled Military Installations”. #, A replica of Thomas Ball's Emancipation Memorial, erected in 1879, stands in Park Square in Boston on June 16, 2020. #. Fire burns on a toppled statue of Albert Pike in Washington, D.C., on June 19, 2020. In Frankfort, Kentucky, a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis is removed from the rotunda of the capitol building on June 13, 2020. Confederate statues, which sentimentalise and glorify the “lost cause” of the civil war, were put up to bolster all that. #, A caged statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis is hoisted out of the state capital in Frankfort, Kentucky, on June 13, 2020. Confederate statues are being torn down across America, Why re-opening schools in minority neighbourhoods is hard, America’s vaccination roll-out will improve with practice, Use of the death penalty in America may be ending. Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney ordered the immediate removal of all Confederate statues in the city, saying he was using his emergency powers to speed up the healing process for the former capital of the Confederacy amid weeks of protests over police brutality and racial injustice. #, The head of a statue of Christopher Columbus was pulled off amid protests against racial inequality in Boston on June 10, 2020. Houston city workers remove a statue of the Confederate soldier Dick Dowling from Hermann Park on June 17, 2020. #, A statue of Christopher Columbus, toppled by protesters, is loaded onto a truck on the grounds of the state capitol in St. Paul, Minnesota, on June 10, 2020. 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