Jacksonville, North Carolina, Missouri, Georgia, Colorado and Mississippi

MAY 5, 2021

**  Group asks why Jacksonville never followed through with removing on removing Confederate statues.  (Florida)

**  Group files lawsuit to remove Confederate monument from Iredell County Government Center.  (North Carolina)

**  Liberty  city officials  start process to take control of cemetery land with Confederate  monument.  (Missouri.  I thought BLM just wanted statues on public land removed.)

**  Ex-governor:  Replace  capitol Confederate statue.  (Georgia.  Replace Gordon statue with Longstreet.  But, both are Confederates.)

**  Petition seeks to ban Confederate flag at Academy  School District 20.  (Colorado Springs, Colorado)

**  Washington County taking  legal action to remove still standing  Confederate statue.  (Mississippi)

**  How did Fort Hood get its name and why is there a push to change it?

--Old Secesh

What the Substitute Saw. Colorado, Texas, Virginia, CAIR, North Carolina, Georgia and Memphis

APRIL 30, 2021

**  Colorado Springs substitute teacher creates petition to ban Confederate flags from classrooms.  (Colorado.  Subbed in a classroom that had the flag up as part of an educational display.  Wonder why she is a substitute and not a regular teacher.)

**  Denton County Confederate monument to be relocated inside courthouse museum.  (Texas)

**  Petition to remove Confederate  monument near Roanoke College gaining attention.  (Virginia)

**  CAIR  supports effort to remove Confederate flag from Alabama  coat of arms.  (Council on American -Islamic Relations.  How do they stand on Islamic ISIS and Taliban atrocities?)

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MAY 1, 2021

**  Confederate statue will have company.  (Gates County, N.C.  The statue will remain but with new wording.)

**  Cobb students fight to remove Confederate general's from school name.  (Cobb County, Georgia.  Joseph Wheeler High School.)

**  Juneteenth Festival planned  for Memphis park where Confederate general's  remains are buried.  (Nathan Bedford Forrest)

--Old Secesh

Confederadication: Maryland's State Song, South Carolina, Colorado, North Carolina, Letters and a Review

DECEMBER 31, 2020

**  Maryland may repeal state song, an appeal to Confederate arms.  ("Maryland, My Maryland."

**  SC lawmaker  wants Confederate flags banned from license plates.  (Sons of Confederate Veterans license plates.  State Democratic Minority Leader Todd Rutherford, a black man.  Go figure.)

**  SC  Heritage Act lawsuit protecting Confederate  monuments sparks top Republican fight.

**  Federal court allows for jury to consider  wrongful termination claim for Confederate-themed posts.  (Colorado.  Woman claims she lost her job because of Confederate imagery on her social posts. This should be an interesting outcome.)

**  Removed Confederate monument still source of contention in 2020.  (Chatham, N.C.  Statue removed in 2019.)

**  2020 newsmaker of the year: 'Fame' Confederate monument.  (Salisbury, N.C.)

**  Letter: Confederate leaders historic, but not worthy of monuments.

**  Letter:  Confederate flag has no place at courthouse.

**  Year in Review:   Summer brought  reckoning with racism.

--Old Secesh

The Second Civil War: North Carolina. Colorado, NDAA and Stone Mountain

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

**  Lawsuit filed  to have Gaston County Confederate  monument relocated.  (North Carolina)

**  Bennet, Dems support defense bill provision removing Confederate names from bases. (Colorado.  Again, if the base names are removed, those who want them removed should pay for it.)

** Charges dismissed against Sen. Lucas, NAACP leaders in Confederate monument case.  (Virginia.  Again, time to recall that judge who ruled this way.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2020

**Formal NDAA  talks to begin under shadow of  Confederate renaming  issue.  (National Defense Authorization Act.  Money for the military.)

**  Stone Mountain Park officials weigh change  to Confederate tributes.  (Georgia.  besides the carving on the side of the mountain, some want Confederate street names changed.

--Old Secesh