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2 North Texas counties to remove monuments
FORT WORTH, Texas – Officials in two North Texas counties voted Tuesday to remove Confederate monuments from their courthouse grounds.
Commissioners of Tarrant and Denton counties voted Tuesday to remove the monuments.
The Tarrant County monument had been erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1953. Commissioner Roy Brooks proposed its removal, saying he “would argue that it’s not a memorial at all, rather that it was erected in 1953 as a reminder to the black citizens of this county and of this state that the rules of Jim Crow were still in effect.”
Tarrant commissioners voted 4-0 with one abstention ...
https://www.click2houston.com/news/texas/2020/06/09/2-north-texas-counties-to-remove-confederate-monuments/
