Committee supports removing Confederate monument from St. Louis park

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ST. LOUIS — A committee of business and civic interests is formally recommending that a Confederate monument be dismantled and moved from the site in St. Louis’ Forest Park that it has occupied for the past 101 years ...

An inscription memorializes “the soldiers and sailors of the Southern Confederacy, who fought to uphold the right declared by the pen of Jefferson and achieved by the sword of Washington … ” ...

“The monument represents a peculiar memorial to what euphemistically was referred to in the American South as a ‘peculiar institution’ — slavery,” the mayor said ...

The committee considered several relocation options, including placing the memorial at the Civil War Museum on the grounds of Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, the campuses of local institutions of higher learning, the City Museum, Laumeier Sculpture Park and other sites ...

http://www.toledoblade.com/Nation/2015/12/26/Committee-supports-removing-Confederate-monument-from-St-Louis-park.html

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