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28-Year-Old Confederate Statue Finally Removed From Georgia Courthouse
Some politicians were nearly brought to tears at removal of the monument, which culminated a long battle to right a wrong to local communities of color.
February 10, 2021 at 5:48 pm
A Confederate monument erected as recent as 28 years ago was taken down on Friday after Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously to have it removed from a Georgia courthouse.
The commissioners agreed in January to move the monument from outside of a Lawrenceville, Georgia, courthouse and into storage until it concluded a legal battle to determine its fate, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. While state law has strict restrictions against the relocation of Confederate monuments, the county commissioners found an exception due to two separate acts of vandalism that threatened the monument’s safety, thus allowing the group to move it to another location.
Georgia to build John Lewis tribute where Confederate monument once stood
Updated Jan 22, 2021;
Posted Jan 22, 2021
Hosea Williams and John Lewis leading marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on Bloody Sunday.Alabama Media Group
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By Tyler Estep The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (TNS) and Tribune Media Services
A tribute to late congressman and civil rights hero John Lewis could one day rise at the same DeKalb County, Ga. site where a Confederate monument stood for more than a century.
Last fall, DeKalb County Commissioner Mereda Davis Johnson and Decatur Mayor Patti Garrett assembled a task force of some two dozen people to determine the best way to honor Lewis. Lewis, who died in July after a battle with pancreatic cancer, represented the 5th Congressional District, which includes a large portion of DeKalb County, for more than three decades.