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Apr 14, 2021 6:44 AM
NATCHEZ, Miss. – The city Board of Aldermen is considering a request to remove the Natchez Confederate monument at Memorial Park placed there in 1890.
This comes a week after Mayor Dan Gibson unveiled plans to erect another monument at the Main Street park to honor black Union soldiers who fought in the Civil War.
Gibson is not calling for taking down the statue that memorializes Confederate soldiers from Natchez-Adams County killed during the war, but Alderman Billie Joe Frazier said it should be. The men it honors “were traitorous to the Union,” Frazier said.
He wanted Tuesday to get the board to vote for removing the 131-year-old monument from the city park. Aldermen instead voted to further review a request by Frazier and Natchez resident Lee Ford.