Jefferson Davis' great-great grandson gives blessing to UT statue decision
By Jim Vertuno - The Associated Press
10:45 a.m. Friday, Aug. 14, 2015
... Davis' great-great grandson, Bertram Hayes-Davis of Gulfport, Mississippi, had written Fenves during the discussions on what to do with that statue. He said Davis' legacy should include his distinguished military career and service as a U.S. senator and Secretary of War before he was elected president of the Confederate States of America.
"I believe that academic institutions have the opportunity to create environments to teach history," said Hayes-Davis, who called moving the statue and not discarding it "appropriate and reasonable."
"I don't want anybody to walk by a statue and feel it is demeaning or threatening in their life," Hayes-Davis said ...
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