The Killeen City Council on Tuesday voted unanimously against a resolution that would have allowed the city to fly the Juneteenth flag at City Hall June 18-20.
The NAACP-Killeen Branch spoke out against the resolution during citizens comments, expressing concerns that it would open Pandoraâs box and allow other flags to be flown at City Hall as well.
âFlying the Juneteenth flag would make it where other groups and organizations could make the same request of their flags to be flown. And yes, Iâm even talking about the Confederate flag or the LGBTQ flag,â Samuel Powell said during citizensâ comments on Tuesday. Powell made the comments on behalf of NAACP-Killeen Branch President TaNeika Driver-Moultrie.
A Texas Agency is Defending the Confederacy
As cities and counties across the state try to take down their Confederate memorials, the Texas Historical Commission keeps making their job harder.
In June 2020, AGE of Central Texas covered the historical marker outside the Confederate Woman’s Home in Austin. Tristan Ahtone
As cities and counties across the state try to take down their Confederate memorials, the Texas Historical Commission keeps making their job harder.
In June 2020, AGE of Central Texas covered the historical marker outside the Confederate Woman’s Home in Austin. Tristan Ahtone
Michael Hardy
Mar 10, 2021, 8:00 am CST
In 1908, the Texas chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy built a 15-bedroom mansion in Austin’s leafy Hyde Park neighborhood, a mile north of the University of Texas. Intended to house elderly wives and widows of Confederate veterans, the Confederate Woman’s Home, like similar facilities in other southern states, was part of the
Following the racial protests of last year, some Asheboro residents are still wondering if anything will happen to the Confederate statue on the Randolph County Historic Courthouse property.
In July 2015, the NC General Assembly passed Senate Bill 22, the Historic Artifact Management and Patriotism Act, which prevents the removal of monuments such as the Confederate statue.
Although this legislature may have halted any immediate plans to relocate the statue it doesn t change the tumultuous history it has left behind. Honor all veterans
Chip Foust, president of the Randolph County NAACP, said the county has a rich history of being anti-Confederate. During the lead up to the Civil War, there was a vote held and over 2700 citizens voted to stay in the United States, with less than 50 voting to join the Confederacy.
Commentary: Confederate holiday fuels oppression
Marci McPhee, For the Express-News
Feb. 2, 2021
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Imagine this discussion:
Adult: “It honors the Civil War leaders who fought to keep Black people slaves.”
Huh? How does that sound to a Black child? What message does it send to a white child?
Honoring the Confederacy is an ongoing outrage to fellow Texans and an incitement to violence, from small insults to deadly force. Continuing to celebrate this holiday perpetuates the culture of oppression of fellow Texans. This issue is back before the Texas Legislature this session.
“These images and words (honoring the Confederacy) give some people the courage and even the audacity to do what they do to people of color, because it emboldens them,” state Rep. Jarvis Johnson of Houston, who in 2019 authored a bill to remove this holiday, told Texas Monthy in July.
State lawmaker from Houston files bill to end Confederate Heroes Day in Texas
The Texas Legislature passed the measure in 1973, more than 100 years after the end of the Civil War. Author: Adam Bennett Updated: 6:05 PM CST January 19, 2021
HOUSTON Some state lawmakers are hoping to end Confederate Heroes Day, a holiday that gives some state employees a paid day off.
State Rep. Jarvis Johnson, D-Houston, filed House Bill 36 to get rid of Confederate Heroes Day. His previous attempt in the 2019 session never made it to a vote.
“This is a part of our past that should be relegated to the history books and not celebrated,” said Rep. Johnson, during a virtual press conference Tuesday afternoon.