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The 75-foot tall obelisk was dismantled before the Court of Appeals told the city and Buncombe County in June to stop the demolition while appeals were heard.
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In a Tuesday vote, the council adopted a resolution calling for the removal of the monument. The town intends to relocate the monument to a site within the city limits.
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County commissioners in August voted to change the plaque on the statue outside the old Jackson County courthouse to remove the Confederate flag on it as well the inscription to ‘Our Heroes of the Confederacy.’ The changes were completed Monday afternoon, says Commissioner Gayle Woody.
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About 70 people gathered in Cornelius on Wednesday night for a rally calling for the removal of a Confederate monument in downtown. It’s been there for 111 years. Protesters marched from the Cornelius Town Hall to Mount Zion United Methodist Church.
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The statues, which date back to 1909 and 1922, were erected during the Jim Crow period by the Daughters of the Confederacy. State law protects them from being removed — but the City of Wilmington found a legal loophole and voted to take them down, with one vocal holdout.
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In recent years, Confederate monuments have been removed across the South, but in some cases, the bases remain planted in the ground. The Southern Poverty Law Center, among others, sees it as a concern.
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An appeals court in North Carolina has denied an emergency motion to halt the ongoing demolition of a 75-foot-tall Confederate monument in downtown Asheville.
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A coalition has filed a lawsuit seeking the removal of a Confederate monument that stands in front of Iredell County’s government center.
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The lawsuit alleges that the monument glorifies slavery, secession and white supremacy, and that county officials have refused to move it from in front of the Alamance County Courthouse in Graham.
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Officials in North Carolina's Iredell County have voted to move a Confederate memorial that has stood outside the court house for more than a century.The…