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Home » Monuments

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They deserved a monument

Avatar photo by Lance Russell July 10, 2023 2:33 pmJuly 10, 2023 2:33 pm

It is not hard to imagine how difficult life must have been for America’s early settlers. Most of us today would be ill-equipped at, best, to walk out into the wilderness and make a home for ourselves. In the 1800s however, it would have been expected of you. Tales abound in American history of the […]

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Cousins Properties facilitates removal of Confederate statue from Peachtree Street

by David Pendered March 26, 2021 12:45 amFebruary 17, 2023 3:56 pm

Cousins Properties has succeeded in its call for the swift removal of a statue of a Confederate cavalryman who later was the first president of a predecessor of Norfolk Southern Railway. The statue is at the gateway of the building in Midtown Cousins purchased from Norfolk Southern.

The Jackson Street Bridge at night by Kemet Alston
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Reporter’s Notebook: Jump-start for construction at Greenbriar, voting and more

by Maggie Lee December 17, 2020 4:03 pmFebruary 17, 2023 3:54 pm

Also, new life for two Grant Park monuments.

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Mayor Reed names six to advisory committee on Confederate streets, statues

by David Pendered October 2, 2017 9:31 pmFebruary 17, 2023 3:33 pm

Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed on Monday announced six appointments to the Advisory Committee on Confederate Monuments and City Street Names, which is to review and recommend what, if anything, is to be done with the monuments and street names.

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Confederate monuments, white supremacy: Moral issues aired in Emory discussion

by David Pendered September 18, 2017 6:33 pmFebruary 17, 2023 3:33 pm

As a discussion of Confederate monuments drew to a close Sunday at Emory University, a moral aspect of the removal debate was voiced: “If we don’t deal with it, if we decide this isn’t worth our time to deal with it, we concede the field to white supremacists.”

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