Albertville man asks county to take down Confederate flag, monument (AL)

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Cat Reid
Updated 6 hrs ago

... Last week Armstrong filed a formal complaint about the monument and flag to the chairman of the Marshall County Commission. He says Chairman James Hutcheson told him they're not coming down ...

Chairman Hutcheson also told WAAY 31 he has "no plans whatsoever" to remove the monuments in Albertville nor the one at the courthouse in Guntersville. He said a new law would have to be passed or the Governor would have to take executive action for that to happen.

Armstrong is calling for the latter. He hopes Governor Bentley will issue a mandate ordering the removal of all Confederate monuments and flags from government property ...

"It represents the murder of an entire race of people for many many years in the past. This is government-sanctioned hatred," Armstrong said ...

http://www.waaytv.com/appnews/albertville-man-asks-county-to-take-down-confederate-flag-monument/article_744aa8b4-d39c-11e5-aec6-f398aa753243.html

[jberryhill]

1. Who was Albertville named after?

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2. Thomas somebody

[jberryhill]

3. Dang...

Didn't see that coming.

Although choosing it for the 1992 Winter Olympics was kind of cool.

[struggle4progress]

4. The winter olympics are often kind of cool

[jberryhill]

6. But you're on fire today!

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. Struggle is correct, btw....

The city of Albertville, named for one of its founders, Thomas Albert, had its real beginning around 1881 when L.S. Emmett moved there from Georgia.


Interesting thing about Alabama...a LOT of places were named for places and people in Georgia and South Carolina, because a lot of people
who were big wigs here were big wigs in other states, then moved here, mostly because of needing new lands for cotton.