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struggle4progress

(118,295 posts) Tue Sep 1, 2015, 10:15 PM Sep 2015

New call to remove statue of Confederate President (KY)

3:49 PM EDT Sep 01, 2015

FRANKFORT, Ky. —There is a new call to remove the statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis from the Kentucky State Capitol.

Seventy-two current and former history professors at 16 colleges and universities sent a letter to Gov. Steve Beshear and the Kentucky Historic Properties Advisory Commission.

The panel voted last month to keep the statue in the Rotunda ...

http://www.wlky.com/news/new-call-to-remove-statue-of-confederate-president/35044356

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New call to remove statue of Confederate President (KY) (Original Post) struggle4progress Sep 2015 OP

Speaking of Rotundas packman Sep 2015 #1

Good. And it doesn't need to be put up anywhere else. marble falls Sep 2015 #2

Odd.... Kentucky stayed in the Union.... Adrahil Sep 2015 #3

packman

(16,296 posts)

1. Speaking of Rotundas

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Tue Sep 1, 2015, 10:36 PM

Sep 2015

There are quite a few confederate "heroes of the South" statues in the National Rotunda. Each state is permitted to have a few statues, busts, painting of their local pride and joys. John Calhoun, Robert E. Lee, Jeff Davis and even his Vice-president -Alexander Hamilton Stephens - take up space in the Rotunda.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/24/confederate-capitol_n_7649156.html

marble falls

(57,106 posts)

2. Good. And it doesn't need to be put up anywhere else.

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Tue Sep 1, 2015, 10:37 PM

Sep 2015

Adrahil

(13,340 posts)

3. Odd.... Kentucky stayed in the Union....

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Tue Sep 1, 2015, 10:44 PM

Sep 2015

Why are they honoring Jeff Davis?

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