Board Hears Expert Testimony On Confederate Memorials (KY)
By JOSH JAMES • 14 MINUTES AGO
The Urban County Art Review Board heard mixed opinions from area experts on the placement and treatment of two Confederate statues and a historical marker located near the Old Fayette County Courthouse Wednesday.
A slim majority of the seven historians, professors, and other experts recommended moving the statue depicting John Hunt Morgan, a general known as the “Thunderbolt of the Confederacy,” possibly to the Hunt-Morgan House on North Mill Street. Historian Maryjean Wall said the towering bronze likeness lionizes a scoundrel ...
... Historian Yvonne Giles, who is African-American, suggested the city keep the statues in place, adding, "I would, however, recommend that you establish a memorial monument fund that would be utilized to erect monuments for those individuals who endured 200-plus years of enslavement here in Lexington" ...
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