The Fate of Non-Confederate People from the Past Who Are Now Convicted of Slavery in Illinois: Stephen A. Douglas and Ninian Edwards

JULY 4, 2020

**  As monuments fall, Confederate carving has size on its side.   (Georgia's Stone Mountain.  And this had best be under tight security as BLM and their folks will try to destroy it.)

**  Letter:  Fort Douglas needs a new name.  (Utah.  Named for U.S. Senator Stephen A. Douglas from Illinois.  There are also movements in Illinois to remove his name, statue and anything else connected to him, even a park in Chicago they want renamed Douglass Park (with the two (s)s after Frederick Douglass.)

**  Protesters stay silent for 9 minutes  at former site of Confederate memorial in Fayetteville.  (North Carolina)

**  Rival petitions  seek to remove, keep Cleveland, Tenn.'s  Confederate statue.

**  Mississippi could drop Jim Crow-era statewide voting process.

**  Trump's racism goes beyond racial division.  (I take it they don't like Trump.)

**  Founder of Edwardsville at the center of statue debate.   (Illinois   Ninian Edwards served three terms as Illinois territorial governor and one as governor back in the early days of the state.  Has a statue in Edwardsville and plaza.  He was a slave owner and used his power to protect it.

--Old Secesh