A judge is scheduled to consider arguments Thursday in a legal fight over a Confederate monument in Tuskegee.
A Confederate heritage group says it will fight a lawsuit in Macon County that could lead to the removal of a monument in Tuskegee.
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) – The Alabama attorney general’s office is trying to revive its lawsuit over the removal of a Confederate monument from outside the county courthouse in the city of Huntsville. The state claims in court documents that a judge shouldn’t have dismissed the suit just because someone anonymously paid a $25,000 fine that was owed by Madison County…
Alabama News Network has asked Macon County District Attorney Jeremy Duerr what charges Tuskegee City Councilman Johnny Ford could face for damaging a Confederate monument.
Macon County Sheriff Andre Brunson tells Alabama News Network that Ford and another man tried to cut down the 115-year-old Confederate monument in the downtown square using a saw and a lift.
From the West Alabama Newsroom– The historic Confederate monument stolen from a Selma cemetery has been recovered more than 300 miles away in New Orleans. Thirty-two year old Stanley Warnick and 24 year old Kathryn Diionno have been arrested and police are searching for 34 year old Stanley Pate — in connection to the theft of the Jefferson Davis Memorial…
The theft of a Confederate monument stolen from a Selma cemetery is making headlines across the country. Now the leader of the group that owns the Jefferson Davis Memorial Chair is speaking out to Alabama News Network. “It’s irreplaceable. It’s just like any other art, it’s priceless. I mean what kind of a price do you put on the Mona…
The list of signatures is growing longer, on an online petition to rename all Confederate-named schools in Montgomery. Monday, more 20,000 people had signed a week-old Change.org petition asking the Montgomery County School Board to the have the names Robert E. Lee High School, Jefferson Davis High School and Sidney Lanier High School. As District 5 school board member Jannah…
Charges have been dropped against protesters who police said splashed ketchup and colored powder on statues honoring Confederate figures at the Alabama Capitol. Jon Broadway was arrested in April after smearing ketchup at the base of the statue honoring a 19th century doctor who did surgery without anesthesia on enslaved African-American women. Broadway used ketchup to symbolize blood while performing…
Soldiers with the Montgomery Field Artillery attend the ceremony for the laying of the cornerstone of the Confederate Monument on Capitol Hill in Montgomery on April 29, 1886. The first and only President of The Confederacy, Jefferson Davis, attended the ceremony. He died less than three years later. Source: Alabama Department of Archives and History More information HERE. Categories: Montgomery…
