Late Monday, the mayor stepped in to finish the job they started. ", Almond, Mark (July 2, 2015) "A close-up look at Birmingham's embattled Confederate monument. ", Whitmire, Kyle (June 1, 2020) "When a Confederate monument wouldn’t fall, rioters turned on Birmingham. Clisby's successors carried the torch and made annual appeals for funds through the Birmingham News. It was the most prominent Confederate monument in the state. News publisher Rufus Rhodes introduced UCV Commander-in-Chief Stephen D. Lee, the featured speaker at the ceremony. "THE MANNER OF THEIR Activist Frank Matthews responded to the ruling by calling for the Birmingham Board of Parks and Recreation to remove the monument immediately. ", Edgemon, Erin (August 16, 2017) "AG files lawsuit against Birmingham over Confederate monument. Construction crews remove Birmingham’s Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument from Linn Park on Monday evening after the start of the city wide curfew. The $1,020 cost was raised in four days by a campaign publicized in the Birmingham News. The city filed a petition for a re-hearing, but it was denied. ", Hrynkiw, Ivana (January 16, 2019) "Birmingham activist calls for removal of Linn Park monument. The Birmingham Park and Recreation Board voted on July 1 to pursue relocating the monument by consulting with attorneys and with the United Daughters of the Confederacy. A seprate GoFundMe campaign was launched by the Penny Foundation later that night to address the same costs as well as, "the erection of a new monument.". ", Whitmire, Kyle (June 3, 2020) "Birmingham’s Confederate monument is gone, but what lies beneath is still there.". The Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument in Birmingham, Ala., seen here in 2016, has been the subject of legal controversy in recent years. [7] The lower court's decision was reversed in November 2019 by the state Supreme Court, which upheld a fine of $25,000 against the city council. The Confederate Soldiers and Sailors monument in downtown Birmingham’s Linn Park, named for Confederate naval Capt. The Confederate Soldiers and Sailors monument had stood in its current spot in the city for 115 years. [3] The slab of rock was unused for several years, though a surplus artillery piece from the Spanish–American War of 1898 once rested on it. A grand parade of over 1,000 people, including the entire student body of Birmingham High School, the corps of cadets from Howard College, the Birmingham Police Department and Birmingham Fire Department, numerous "carriages and tally-hos," and several military bands, made its way from Jefferson County Courthouse to the park. 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DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY The symbolism wasn't lost on residents of Birmingham, Alabama: On Monday, as state officials commemorated Confederacy leader Jefferson Davis as part of … 67 "The City of Birmingham acted unlawfully when it erected barriers to obstruct the view of the 114-year-old Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument in Linn Park." The east face of the Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument is shown in Linn Park in Birmingham. Workers on Monday night began taking down a 115-year-old Confederate Soldiers and Sailors monument in a Birmingham park after the city’s mayor vowed to remove the offensive statues.. It was signed into law by Governor Kay Ivey on May 24 as the "Alabama Memorial Preservation Act". The Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument was a commemorative obelisk that was erected in Linn Park, Birmingham, Alabama in 1905. On Sunday, the obelisk — known formally as the Confederate Sailors and Soldiers Monument — was the site of a speech from Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin, who pleaded with the … (November 10, 1904), "Confederate Monument is Unveiled in Capitol Park." After the Spanish-American War concluded in August 1898 the city installed a surplus artillery piece from that conflict on top of it. A GoFundMe campaign was launched by White Clergy for Black Lives Matter to reimburse any costs and potential state penalties for removing the monument. General George P. Harrison, Commander of the United Confederate Veterans of Alabama, gave the concluding address to rounds of raucous applause punctuated by the "rebel yell" from fellow veterans. Mayor Randall Woodfin said the expected $25,000 fine for removing the statue would be much more affordable than the cost of continued unrest in the city. This page has been accessed 20,116 times. ", Bryant, Joseph D. 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