GALVESTON, Texas (AP) - A Houston activist is campaigning to have Galveston officials take down a statue in front of the local courthouse that honors Confederate soldiers.
Isaac Fanuiel tells the Galveston County Daily News (https://bit.ly/1Chs0FZ ) that the monument is inappropriate on an island where federal troops announced the freeing of slaves at the end of the Civil War - a day commemorated as Juneteenth.
Confederate symbols have received new scrutiny in Texas and across the South after the South Carolina church shooting last month that left nine black people dead. A white man linked to supremacist groups is charged with murder in their deaths.
The Galveston statue is named “Dignified Resignation” and features a man holding a Confederate flag and a broken sword. A scroll at his feet reads, “Glory to the Defeated.”
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Information from: The Galveston County Daily News, https://www.galvnews.com
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