Wanted: New Home for Confederate Monument in Forest Park (MO)
September 7, 2015 6:27 PM
... Mayor Slay’s committee tasked with deciding what to do about the monument sent letters to local universities, the City Museum, Laumeier Sculpture Park and the Civil War Museum in Jefferson Barracks park ...
Roth says the estimated cost of moving the 30-foot tall, 35 ton structure is $100,000 ...
Roth says his research shows the monument was part of a nationwide trend during the turn-of-the-century to “revise history” so that the Confederate cause would seem noble with no mention of slavery ...
Years ago, Roth claims, the city moved a monument honoring Union General Nathaniel Lyon, the hero of the Battle of Arsenal Street, because a wealthy descendant of a Confederate general didn’t want the statute near St. Louis University, where she was planning to make a substantial donation of money.
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