There are 27 article(s) tagged Confederate monuments:

• October 2020

  • Collierville Confederate marker draws mixed reactions from candidates

    Alderman candidates have mixed reactions on the Confederate marker in Town Square Park. Recently, elected officials have not moved on the issue.

    By Abigail Warren October 16, 2020

  • Six arrested after vandalism of Confederate monument in Collierville

    Collierville Police arrested six people Friday following vandalism of the Confederate relic in Town Square.

    By Abigail Warren October 09, 2020

• September 2020

  • Collierville leaders not moving on Confederate marker

    Collierville leaders declined to make motion to place discussion of the Confederate monument on a future agenda.

    By Abigail Warren September 29, 2020

  • Oliver’s Crossing approved, residents address Confederate relic

    Collierville leaders approved the amended plan for Oliver’s Crossing. Additionally, they heard from residents about the Confederate relic in Town Square Park.

    By Abigail Warren September 14, 2020

  • Collierville resident arrested during protest identified, released from police custody

    Collierville authorities have identified 65-year-old Warren McDearman as the resident and counter-protester arrested Monday night.

    By Abigail Warren September 08, 2020

  • One arrested as protesters gather in Collierville

    Protesters gathered in Collierville's Town Square Park on Labor Day to ask town leaders to take action toward removing a Confederate monument.

    By Abigail Warren September 07, 2020

• August 2020

  • The Memphis 10: Collierville Confederate markers another skirmish in struggle over Southern identity

    The effort and cost it takes to pick up the litter left by these ahistorical Lost Cause organizations is a drag. I’m not here to tell Collierville what to do, but those Confederate markers will go away some day.

    By Chris Herrington August 27, 2020

  • Shelby County residents address Collierville leaders about Confederate relic

    Shelby County residents spoke against a Confederate relic in Town Square Park.

    By Abigail Warren August 24, 2020

  • Collierville addresses Confederate relic in historic park

    A relic in Collierville's Town Square Park – named so in 2017 – identifies the area as "Confederate Park," but the park never had that name, town officials said.

    By Abigail Warren August 11, 2020

• June 2020

  • Alexander says statues, monuments should be reviewed, rotated

    Speaking to an online meeting of the Memphis Rotary Club, the U.S. senator from Tennessee said efforts to take down the statue of Andrew Jackson in Washington D.C. show "a terrible misunderstanding of history." Alexander also said the lawsuit seeking to do away with the Affordable Care Act is "flimsy."

    By Bill Dries June 30, 2020

  • Nelson: In these conflicted times, Mississippi shows the way

    "Nuance and process are the boring but essential virtues we need to make good decisions about matters like state flags, Confederate monuments and public holidays."

    By Michael Nelson June 28, 2020

  • Listening, and learning how to be an antiracist

    There is such a thing as white privilege, no matter the circumstances in which we were raised. My father was raised in dire poverty. And yet he was the first to admit that color never kept him back. He never feared for his life just for being white. He was never denied a bank loan. He was admitted to the University of Texas at a time when blacks were not allowed to enroll.

    By Steve Montgomery June 14, 2020

  • Protesters remembered their Tennessee history when they met the statue of a racist

    Edward Carmack’s statue in the Tennessee Capitol was among several monuments linked to racism and the Confederacy that bit the dust or were defaced during protests over the senseless killing of African Americans by police and vigilantes.

    By Otis Sanford June 04, 2020

• May 2020

  • Forrest reinterment plans being made following end to lawsuits

    A final lawsuit over the grave site of the Confederate General, slave trader and Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard was dropped this week and legal filings toward moving the remains of Nathan Bedford Forrest and his wife should be filed in Chancery Court soon.

    By Bill Dries May 12, 2020

• December 2019

  • Behind the Headlines Podcast: Journalist round table

    Laura Faith Kebede of Chalkbeat Tennessee, Toby Sells of The Memphis Flyer and Karanja Ajanaku of The New Tri-State Defender discuss charter schools, Greensward parking, Confederate monuments and more with host Eric Barnes.

    By Eric Barnes December 20, 2019

  • Memphis Park debuts post-monument look two years later

    The Holiday Night Market Friday in the park highlights the intersection between the drive to remove the monuments and an earlier effort to activate the park for more Memphians.

    By Bill Dries December 19, 2019

  • The Early Word: Waste and water, Confederates and crafts

    Good morning, it’s Wednesday, Dec. 18. Today, the federal government is expected to announce a new initiative for seven cities, one of them being Memphis. 

    By Mary Cashiola December 18, 2019

  • Confederate monuments sent to descendants, SCV

    Two years to the week that Confederate monuments were removed from three city parks, the statues have been turned over to descendants or the Sons of Confederate Veterans, the city announced Tuesday.

    By Bill Dries December 17, 2019

• June 2019

  • Greenspace taking wait-and-see approach to sell Forrest statue in wake of court ruling

    There is no immediate move to sell Confederate monuments removed from two Memphis parks until all appeals by Sons of Confederate Veterans, which is contesting the sale of the parks and the statues' removal, are exhausted. 

    By Bill Dries June 05, 2019

  • Appeals court sides with Memphis over sale of Confederate monuments

    The Tennessee Court of Appeals has ruled the Sons of Confederate Veterans organization has no case to preserve two Memphis parks and the Confederate monuments removed from them in 2017.

    By Bill Dries June 04, 2019

• May 2019

  • Malone: County funding for new voting machines should come with no strings attached

    The president of the city's longest running civil rights organization commented on The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast about the funding, voter registration lawsuits and leaving her post this fall.

    By Bill Dries May 31, 2019

• March 2019

  • Sanford: A Morehouse Man moves into leadership roles. Naturally.

    The history-altering transfer of public property to an upstart nonprofit transformed Van Turner from mild-mannered lawyer and county commissioner to gutsy leader, willing to take the heat for removing Confederate symbols of slavery and racism.

    By Otis Sanford March 28, 2019

  • Tami Sawyer announces bid for Memphis mayor

    Six months after being sworn in as Shelby County Commissioner, Tami Sawyer announced Thursday she is launching a campaign to be the next Memphis mayor. 

    By Omer Yusuf March 07, 2019

  • Kyle hopes to restrict lawsuits funded by sale of Confederate tags

    Legislation would prohibit proceeds from the sale of specialty tags from being used to pay for lawsuits against local or state governments.

    By Sam Stockard March 02, 2019

• December 2018

  • Confederate monument anniversary reveals a work in progress

    One year to the day that Confederate monuments were removed from two city parks, the anniversary revealed the controversy still has some unexpected life left in it among those pursuing the removal of the monuments by different methods.

    By Bill Dries December 20, 2018