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Giant Confederate Monument Will Remain at Revamped Stone Mountain Timothy Pratt and Rick Rojas, New York Times, May 24, 2021 The Confederate flags that have long flapped at the base of Stone Mountain, placed there by the United Daughters of the Confederacy, will be moved to a less prominent area, joining other relics of the Civil War. New exhibits will offer a fuller and more complicated description of the park’s history, attempting to reach beyond the war it memorializes to the role the Ku Klux Klan and resistance to desegregation played in its creation. But the enormous monument at the center of the park Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson carved into stone as a Confederate equivalent to Mount Rushmore is not going anywhere. ....
(Image: Twitter/@KwikWarren) Stone Mountain Park in Georgia has a Confederate equivalent to Mount Rushmore. However, there are going to be changes to make sure the state of Georgia doesn’t support racist traitors of America. On Monday, the Stone Mountain Memorial Association adopted four new resolutions, including how the exhibit will handle the stone carving of three Confederate leaders Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, 11 Alive, according to an NBC affiliate based in Atlanta. It is one of Georgia’s biggest tourist destinations, but it is also high offensive; some would say the carving glorifies racism. Critics may not be completely happy over the decision, but the Stone Mountain Park will add a museum to explain its racist roots for context and will relocate Confederate flags from a busy walking trail. ....
Officials at the Georgia park voted to move flags and create exhibits to put the Civil War into fuller context. But the likeness of three Confederate leaders carved into stone isn’t going anywhere. ....
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