Tuskegee leaders want Confederate statue gone
By Kavontae Smalls | September 18, 2021
... “The statue was not given to the Daughters of the Confederacy State of Alabama, or Daughters of the Confederacy nationwide or southern-wide. It was given to the Daughters of the Confederacy of Macon County which does not exist anymore and it’s not a white only park so it’s obvious and clear it goes back to the County,” said Tuskegee Mayor Lawrence Tony Haygood ...
... the majority-Black city is finally inching closer to having the statue removed, that is if a judge in the Fifth Judicial Circuit of Alabama decides the land it sits on belongs to Macon County instead of the owners of the statue itself, the Macon County Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy ...
... the monument was erected in 1909. Local officials at the time gave the statue and the land it sits on in Tuskegee’s Town Square Park to the Macon County chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. The park was deemed for white people only ...
Haygood hopes the judge decides to declare ownership of the town square to Macon County, which in turn could mean the city of Tuskegee can transform the park into something more suitable and welcoming to the majority-Black city ...
https://atlantablackstar.com/2021/09/18/we-dont-want-to-wait-anymore-tuskegee-leaders-want-confederate-statue-gone/
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