'New era of understanding': Bastrop County begins process of relocating Confederate monuments
BASTROP — Sumai Lokumbe spoke with intensity and passion, well aware that she was becoming more emotional with each sentence.
Acting as the mistress of ceremony Saturday morning at the Bastrop County Courthouse, Lokumbe helped introduce speakers for an historic day in the city and county’s history.
The process of removing and relocating from the grounds of the courthouse a pair of Confederate monuments — an obelisk erected in 1910 by a local chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and a granite headstone erected in 1964 by the state of Texas commemorating Joseph D. Sayers, a major in the Confederate army and Texas’ 22nd governor — formally began Saturday, with a ceremony marking the occasion.
The removal of the monuments is expected to begin in April.
Read more: https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2021/03/27/bastrop-county-process-relocating-confederate-monuments-paul-pape-cheryl-lee/6974111002/
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