The Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial was chosen to venerate the losing side of the U.S. Civil War, when southern states fought to preserve Black slavery
May 24 (Reuters) - Managers of the largest U.S. shrine to the pro-slavery Confederacy on Monday voted to create a museum exhibit to tell the truth about the Georgia monument and its giant carvings of Confederate figures, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
The Stone Mountain Memorial Association s board of directors also voted to relocate Confederate flags to a less-traveled area of Stone Mountain Park, located about 25 miles northeast of Atlanta, and to change the association s logo, which replicates the mountainside carvings of Confederate President Jefferson Davis and Generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson.
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