Birmingham AL to cover Confederate monument as city considers removal
Updated on August 15, 2017 at 5:40 PM
Posted on August 15, 2017 at 12:20 PM
By Erin Edgemon
Birmingham Mayor William Bell, on Tuesday afternoon, ordered the Confederate monument at Linn Park covered while legal options to remove it are being considered ...
The monument was temporarily covered in plastic this afternoon. The plastic was later removed and will possibly be replaced with plywood in the next few days, according to the mayor's office ...
Two years ago, the Birmingham Park and Recreation Board unanimously approved a resolution to ask city attorneys to research the removal of the 112-year-old monument to Confederate veterans at Birmingham's Linn Park ...
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The largest high relief sculpture in the world, the Confederate Memorial Carving, depicts three Confederate heroes of the Civil War, President Jefferson Davis and Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson. The entire carved surface measures three-acres, larger than a football field and Mount Rushmore. The carving of the three men towers 400 feet above the ground, measures 90 by 190 feet, and is recessed 42 feet into the mountain. The deepest point of the carving is at Lee's elbow, which is 12 feet to the mountain's surface.
Interestingly, the park was owned by James Veneable -- an honest to god grand wizzard of the KKK -- before it was bought by the State of Georgia. I remember as a kid there were big Klan rallys held at the top with a burning cross. Never saw it directly, but the photos in the paper were startling.
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