Alabama church removes pew honoring Confederate president
Source: Associated Press
Jay Reeves, Associated Press
Updated 1:49 pm CST, Sunday, February 10, 2019
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) An Alabama church has removed a pew honoring Confederate President Jefferson Davis, saying the memorial had no place at a time when rebel symbols have been adopted by white supremacists.
The pastor of St. John's Episcopal Church, Robert C. Wisnewski Jr., posted a message on the church website last week saying the wooden pew was dedicated more than 90 years ago at a service featuring a pro-lynching segregationist.
After learning of the pew's history at a recent planning retreat, church leaders discussed it and then voted to remove the pew from the sanctuary and place it in the church archive, he wrote.
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The pew actually wasn't installed until decades after the war, when whites were trying to maintain control in the South, Wisnewski wrote. Tennessee writer John Trotwood Moore, who supported segregation and opposed an anti-lynching law, spoke at the dedication service in 1925.
Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Alabama-church-removes-pew-honoring-Confederate-13605335.php
klook
(12,155 posts)this church is in Montgomery, although the article is bylined from Birmingham.
Judi Lynn
(160,530 posts)within its sanctuary. They must feel cleaner already!
SunSeeker
(51,554 posts)packman
(16,296 posts)Talitha
(6,589 posts)Why hang onto it?
Good riddance to bad rubbish!
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)At what time have rebel symbols not been adopted by white supremacists? IMO, they've always coincided.