Georgia Capitol heavy with Confederate symbols
Statues, portraits offensive to many, sacred to others
By Chris Joyner - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted: 12:00 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 5, 2015
... Counting its statues, marble busts, plaques and towering oil paintings, the Capitol boasts monuments to the vice president and secretary of state of the Confederacy, Georgia’s two Confederate senators, the state’s Civil War governor, six Confederate generals, a colonel, a major, a naval commander and a lieutenant.
As a bonus, the Capitol collection also includes three men central in the forced removal of Cherokee Indians from the state in the Trail of Tears and a choir of 20th-century segregationists who did all in their power to keep African-Americans from obtaining equal rights ...
“You can look at the Brown monument or the Gordon monument and say these are Civil War monuments and that’s true,” Noe said. “They are also about the power of people who could choose those particular symbols, put them on the statehouse lawn. And they are about the relative powerlessness of the people who wouldn’t want those statues erected” ...
“If you walked through the State Capitol as a visitor — say, a Georgia group of school children — nowhere in the State Capitol or on the grounds of the Capitol would you see any indications that we had black citizens who were distinguished and accomplished,” <President> Carter said in a recently recorded video that accompanies a self-guided tour of the Capitol ...
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