The Freemasons all-male fraternal organization, which Pike belonged to, donated the majority of funds used to erect the monument in 1901.
After meeting with the organization, Ms. Norton said she wants the statue to be relocated from its current location near Judiciary Square.
“I oppose destroying Confederate statues, because I believe they should be moved to more appropriate settings, like museums, to avoid erasing an important part of history from which Americans must continue to learn,” she said.
The 28-foot-tall bronze statue was one of several that were toppled throughout the nation last summer during racial justice protests. It has since been restored at the request of former President Trump, who also signed an executive order to protect national monuments.
Showdown in the Ozarks: A Defeat From Which the Confederacy Never Recovered
At snowy, muddy Pea Ridge, Arkansas, just across the border from Missouri, Union and Confederate forces met to decide the fate of the “Show Me” State.
Here s What You Need to Know: The disastrous impact of Pea Ridge on Confederate fortunes was immense.
For three weeks in February 1862, Union Brig. Gen. Samuel Curtis led his Army of the Southwest on a 200-mile advance southward across the Ozark plateau in Missouri and into northern Arkansas. The February weather made for abysmal campaigning, pelting the men with snow and alternately freezing the primitive dirt roads or flooding them with mud. The advance was of such vital importance to the Union cause that Curtis’s department commander, Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck, ordered it to proceed despite the terrible weather. Halleck was committed to a series of grand river offensives aimed at striking into the heart of Confederate Tennessee. However, as long a
Photo: Car-Mart
The announcement this week of the sale of 19 of America’s Car-Mart Inc. locations did not include the Mountain Home property, but did include Harrison’s, according to a Talk Business Arkansas report.
The transaction includes properties in Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas, but the deal won’t impact existing operations for the buy here, pay here used car dealer.
Commercial real estate firm CBRE announced Wednesday the sale of a retail portfolio totaling more than 90,000 square feet of space. The car dealerships were sold to Miami-based Orion Buying Corp. The seller is the Fleeman family, the founders of Car-Mart, according to a news release.
How the FBI Created Domestic Terrorism: 80 Years of Psychological Warfare Revealed
The “war on terror” is now expanding to target a broad spectrum of the American population who would be morally resistant to the sorts of anti-human policies demanded by Great Reset Technocrats, Matthew Ehret writes.
Since it has become increasingly evident that a vast extension of the Patriot Act will soon be unveiled that threatens to re-define “the war on terror” to include essentially anyone who disagrees with the governing neoliberal agenda, it is probably a good time to evaluate how and why terrorism – domestic or otherwise – has tended to arise over the past century.