St. Louis reaches deal to remove Confederate monument
Source: Reuters
A controversial Confederate monument in St. Louis will be dismantled by the end of the week under an agreement announced on Monday, city officials said.
The granite and bronze memorial was the latest Confederate monument to be targeted as U.S. cities remove the structures seen as reminders of slavery and the racism that underpinned it.
St. Louis reached the agreement with the Missouri Civil War Museum and other groups after a lawsuit halted the city's effort to dismantle the 32-foot memorial earlier this month, according to the mayor's office.
The museum will pay for the removal by June 30 and store it until a new location can be found at a museum, a battlefield or a cemetery that must be outside the city, according to a copy of the agreement.
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U.S. | Mon Jun 26, 2017 | 1:55pm EDT
By Chris Kenning
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Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Confederate monument will be gone from Forest Park by Friday under new agreement
By Kim Bell and Celeste Bott • St. Louis Post-Dispatch 5 hrs ago
UPDATED at 12:00 p.m.
ST. LOUIS • The controversial Confederate Monument in Forest Park will be removed by the end of the week under an agreement announced Monday.
In a settlement between St. Louis and the Missouri Civil War Museum, the museum agrees to remove the massive marker by the end of the day Friday — and perhaps much more quickly. Workers were rapidly deconstructing the monument Monday, shortly after the settlement was announced.
The museum will foot the bill for the move, and agreed to store the monument until a permanent new location is found for it. That permanent location must be at a Civil War museum, battlefield or cemetery, the agreement says.
The museum also agrees not to display the monument in the city of St. Louis or St. Louis County.
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Just modify it with a flagholder.
That flies a white flag
Don't bury history, let people remember the TREASON.
Change the inscription on the front, perhaps add another one...
IMHO, the danger of forgetting -not just the treasonous acts but the glorification of same, is far greater than the danger of the occasional nitwit thinking such a monument or cause glorious