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Local petition calls for U.Va. to remove George Rogers Clark statue
Last edited Mon Aug 5, 2019, 08:36 PM - Edit history (1)
Oh, I had thought that the Clark in the statue was Lewis's partner on the expedition, not his older brother.
Local petition calls for U.Va. to remove George Rogers Clark statue
The President’s Commission on the University in the Age of Segregation is considering the Clark statue’s presence in the scope of broader project on the University’s role in segregation
By Bridget Starrs | 08/02/2019
Local Virginia activist David Swanson is circulating a petition urging University administration to remove the George Rogers Clark statue from its current location on University property. ... The statue, located by the intersection of West Main Street and Jefferson Park Avenue, depicts George Rogers Clark riding horseback, confronting a Native American chief. A group of Native Americans are depicted kneeling in front of Clark, while soldiers brandish weapons behind him. The statue’s inscription reads “George Rogers Clark: Conqueror of the Northwest.”
George Rogers Clark himself was born in Albemarle County, Virginia and was the older brother of the Lewis and Clark Expedition co-leader William Clark. He led militia efforts in the Northwest against the British and Native Americans during the American Revolution, and in the years afterwards, headed attacks on Native American tribes as the U.S. expanded westward.
Anthony Malabad is a rising fourth-year College student and president of the Native American Student Union, an organization devoted to social and cultural activism for Native American issues on Grounds. According to Malabad, University students involved in NASU have varied opinions on what should be done with the statue. ... “Some feel the statue needs to be removed, some people feel that it needs to be re-contextualized, but we all agree that the statue in its current form is not good,” Malabad said.
The statue was donated to the city in the early 1920s by Paul Goodloe McIntire, a prominent University benefactor who also donated the contentious statues of Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson to the City of Charlottesville.
In his petition, Swanson calls for the University to “remove the statue of George Rogers Clark engaged in genocide to a museum where it can be presented as a shameful memory.” Swanson highlights the statue’s problematic history, noting local reactions to its dedication in 1921. ... “An article from the 1921 dedication of the statue in the University of Virginia Alumni News approvingly describes the woman in the memorial as being forced to beg for mercy for her baby,” the petition states. According to the petition, the Alumni News publication credited the statue with “explaining the futility of resistance.”
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The President’s Commission on the University in the Age of Segregation is considering the Clark statue’s presence in the scope of broader project on the University’s role in segregation
By Bridget Starrs | 08/02/2019
Local Virginia activist David Swanson is circulating a petition urging University administration to remove the George Rogers Clark statue from its current location on University property. ... The statue, located by the intersection of West Main Street and Jefferson Park Avenue, depicts George Rogers Clark riding horseback, confronting a Native American chief. A group of Native Americans are depicted kneeling in front of Clark, while soldiers brandish weapons behind him. The statue’s inscription reads “George Rogers Clark: Conqueror of the Northwest.”
George Rogers Clark himself was born in Albemarle County, Virginia and was the older brother of the Lewis and Clark Expedition co-leader William Clark. He led militia efforts in the Northwest against the British and Native Americans during the American Revolution, and in the years afterwards, headed attacks on Native American tribes as the U.S. expanded westward.
Anthony Malabad is a rising fourth-year College student and president of the Native American Student Union, an organization devoted to social and cultural activism for Native American issues on Grounds. According to Malabad, University students involved in NASU have varied opinions on what should be done with the statue. ... “Some feel the statue needs to be removed, some people feel that it needs to be re-contextualized, but we all agree that the statue in its current form is not good,” Malabad said.
The statue was donated to the city in the early 1920s by Paul Goodloe McIntire, a prominent University benefactor who also donated the contentious statues of Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson to the City of Charlottesville.
In his petition, Swanson calls for the University to “remove the statue of George Rogers Clark engaged in genocide to a museum where it can be presented as a shameful memory.” Swanson highlights the statue’s problematic history, noting local reactions to its dedication in 1921. ... “An article from the 1921 dedication of the statue in the University of Virginia Alumni News approvingly describes the woman in the memorial as being forced to beg for mercy for her baby,” the petition states. According to the petition, the Alumni News publication credited the statue with “explaining the futility of resistance.”
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https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/San-Francisco-board-votes-to-remove-statue-13225683.php
San Francisco board votes to remove pioneer- settler conquering Native American statue, 2018.
San Francisco board votes to remove pioneer- settler conquering Native American statue, 2018.
