Many remaining monuments have been the targets of vandalism in recent weeks. Nathan Bedford Forrest, the Confederate general who was the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, has the sixth highest number of monuments. Lee, Jefferson Davis and Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson are the top Confederates with statues, roads and schools named in their honor. North Carolina, 160 monuments remaining.South Carolina, 194 monuments remaining.While the analysis shows 190 Confederate symbols have been removed over the years, 1,700 still remain in states across the U.S.ĭespite removing the most monuments, Virginia and Texas are also among states with the most remaining. Since 2013, these states have removed the most Confederate monuments and symbols, according to the analysis: The BeenVerified analysis used 2019 data collected from the Southern Poverty Law Center in addition to dozens of 2020 media reports to reflect Confederate symbols that have fallen in recent weeks. Virginia has removed 12, while North Carolina removed nine and Texas six. Confederate monuments removedĪmong states with monuments, Virginia, North Carolina and Texas have removed the most Confederate monuments in recent weeks. In other places across the U.S., statues and monuments to Columbus, credited with 'discovering' America, have been removed amid complaints that the Italian explorer is responsible for killing and exploiting native peoples of the Americas. Another reporter said he was assaulted by an officer, and activists said a video shows an officer 'sucker punch' an 18-year-old, knocking several of her teeth out. Protesters tried to tear down the statue, and some clashed with police.Ĭolumbus Statue Protest Results In Injuries, 12 ArrestsĪ CBS Chicago reporter shared video she said showed an officer using a baton to knock her phone out of her hand before kicking it. Over the weekend, tension erupted as demonstrators protested a statue of Christopher Columbus in Chicago's Grant Park. Though the state constitution forbade slavery from being introduced after Illinois joined the union, slavery was not formally banned in the state until a new constitution was drafted in 1848. Pierre Menard, who became Illinois' first lieutenant governor in 1818, forced enslaved Africans to build his house and labor on his farm in southern Randolph County, Illinois, according to archaeologists Christopher Stratton and Floyd Mansberger writing in the journal Illinois Antiquity.

Douglas from the Statehouse, as well as statues of both Douglas and Pierre Menard from Capitol grounds.ĭouglas, who owned slaves under his wife's name in Mississippi, ran for president against fellow Illinoisan Abraham Lincoln in 1860. Earlier this month, Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan called for the removal of a portrait of Stephen A.

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