A Confederate monument is set to be moved from a courthouse lawn on Maryland’s Eastern Shore after officials voted to relocate it to a Virginia battleground.
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Read More »September 15, 2021 Comments Off on Confederate statue to be moved from Eastern Shore courthouse lawn
A Confederate monument is set to be moved from a courthouse lawn on Maryland’s Eastern Shore after officials voted to relocate it to a Virginia battleground.
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Read More »August 16, 2021 Comments Off on Foes of ‘Talbot Boys’ statue invoke Holocaust, Sept. 11 to justify lawsuit
Invoking the Holocaust and Sept. 11, attorneys for Black Talbot County residents defend their call for removal of a statue honoring local Confederate soldiers.
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Read More »August 29, 2017 Comments Off on Charge of firing gun at protesters not first for Md. KKK member
TOWSON — Ellen Drisgill said she was shocked when FBI agents came to her house and arrested her son, a KKK member who police say fired a gun during a recent white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Drisgill said she ...
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Read More »August 24, 2017 Comments Off on Confederate names at Naval Academy could face rough seas
The Naval Academy superintendent's stately home and a building that houses the academy's division of Weapons and Systems Engineering are both named for Confederates.
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Read More »August 22, 2017 Comments Off on Confederate memorial removed from outside Maryland court
ELLICOTT CITY — A Confederate memorial has been removed from outside a Maryland courthouse. Photos posted on Howard County Executive Allan H. Kittleman’s Facebook show the memorial outside the Circuit Court in Ellicott City being removed Monday night and placed ...
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Read More »August 17, 2017 Comments Off on This obscure Maryland jurist ought to have a statue
The violence by neo-Nazis, Klansmen and other racists in Charlottesville, Virginia, outraged decent people across the United States. For the extremists’ ostensible cause – protecting Confederate monuments, such as the Robert E. Lee statue in that Virginia college town’s Emancipation ...
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Read More »August 17, 2017 Comments Off on Mayor: Baltimore statues came down ‘quietly, quickly’
Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh has a few words of advice for leaders in other cities who might want to get rid of Confederate monuments: “Do it quietly and quickly.” On Tuesday Pugh ordered four statues in Baltimore removed under the ...
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Read More »August 16, 2017 Comments Off on Workers remove Baltimore Confederate monuments overnight
Confederate monuments have been removed overnight in Baltimore. Local news outlets report that workers hauled the monuments away early Wednesday, days after a white nationalist rally in Virginia turned deadly. WBAL-TV reports that a crane removed a monument to Robert ...
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Read More »August 15, 2017 Comments Off on Deadly rally accelerates removal of Confederate statues
In Gainesville, Florida, workers hired by the Daughters of the Confederacy chipped away at a Confederate soldier’s statue, loaded it quietly on a truck and drove away with little fanfare. In Baltimore, Mayor Catherine Pugh said she’s ready to tear ...
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Read More »July 25, 2017 Comments Off on Confederate statue moved from courthouse in Maryland
ROCKVILLE — A statue of a Confederate cavalryman has been removed from outside the Rockville Courthouse in Maryland and placed near a privately run Potomac River ferry named for a Confederate general. Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett tells local media ...
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