Challenging the Racist Legacy of Confederate Monuments (MD)
by: Sean Yoes Senior
Nov 4, 2015
I spent part of Monday afternoon .. in Druid Hill Park helping load a 500 pound, 12 foot tall statue of a pregnant, bare breasted woman of color into the back of a city-owned pick-up truck ...
“It will be destroyed and you will be arrested for disorderly conduct,” was the unequivocal declaration of a Baltimore City police officer ...
Andrews is part of a group that placed the statue crafted by artist Pablo Machioli in front of the Lee-Jackson monument ...
The Lee-Jackson monument in particular has sparked the ire of many because it was erected in 1948, almost 100 years after the civil war was fought, .. an affirmation of segregation and institutional racism in Baltimore ...
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