A group had threatened to turn the Jefferson Davis chair monument into a toilet, but it later showed up unscathed in New Orleans.
A brick base sits empty where a chair carved out of limestone honoring Confederate President Jefferson Davis was stolen from Confederate Memorial Circle, a private section of Live Oak Cemetery in Selma, Ala. (AP Photo/Kim Chandler)
(CN) – Police in Selma, Alabama, have obtained an arrest warrant for a man after a Confederate monument was stolen from a cemetery in March only to have the stone chair show up on the streets of New Orleans weeks later.
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Senators Clyde Chambliss and Bobby Singleton are sponsoring a bill that will take funds from the statewide property tax that is tied to the confederacy, to help preserve and promote black history.
Alabama First Created this tax to help confederate soldiers and their widows after the war. The state has continued to collect taxes ever since. Most of the revenue is used for other purposes, but 1% goes to the state’s Confederate Memorial Park in Mountain Creek.
The two senators want to sponsor a bill that will preserve park funding, but also require that Alabama spend an equal 1% on black historical sites. The bill would also establish a process to move confederate memorials removed from elsewhere, to the park.
The statue known as The Jefferson Davis Memorial Chair was stolen in March and held for ransom. Author: WWL Staff, Associated Press Published: 1:43 PM CDT April 9, 2021 Updated: 6:24 PM CDT April 9, 2021
NEW ORLEANS New Orleans police arrested two people and are searching for a third in connection to a Confederate monument stolen from Old Live Oak Cemetery in Selma, Ala.
According to NOPD, Alabama s Dallas County Sheriff s Office received a tip that the concrete chair, known as the Jefferson Davis Memorial Chair, was in New Orleans.
Police found the chair near the corner of Feliciana and North Galvez Streets on Thursday, April 8, seemingly undamaged. Police say the monument has since been returned to its owners.