Texas Universities, Virginia, Georgia, Back in the Days, Heroes Day

JANUARY 26, 2021

**  Texas universities promise action  after summer's racial reckoning.  But they're still reluctant to shed Confederate relics.

**  Committee to offer  recommendation on Botetourt County Confederate monument.  (Virginia)

**  Controversial Confederate monument finds new home in storage unit.  (Lawrenceville, Georgia)

**  Activist who removed  Confederate flag from South Carolina State Capitol in 2015 to address URI community Feb. 2.  (Univ. of Rhode Island.  At the time, I thought this was absolutely horrible, but it pales compared to all the violence, rioting, looting, burning and hate crimes committed by BLM this past summer.)

**  ETX Covered:  Repealing Confederate Heroes Day.  (Texas)

**  Fate of Confederate general statue a priority in Rome as the city 's committees restart meetings.  (Georgia)

--Old Secesh

Keeping a Confederate Monument in Mississippi Despite Black and University Vote: Another Road, Rhode Island's Name and a Compromise

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

**  Voters narrowly approve keeping Confederate statue in place.  (Hattiesburg, Forrest County, Mississippi.  51% voted to keep the statue.  There are also a lot of Blacks living in the city and county as well as a university (University of Southern Mississippi) which may account for why the vote was so close.)

**  NC Looks to take Confederate Jefferson Davis' name off highway.

**   Five states OK  measures eradicating  racist language, symbols.    (Rhode Island removed the word plantation from the state's title.  Let me know when they've gone too far.  Official name is:   "The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.  So, now the word plantation is a bad word?   Other states are removing Jim Crow laws from the books which is a good move.)

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NOVEMBER 10, 2020

**  Fairfax County has removed Confederate monuments from  its courthouse property.  (Virginia)

**  Confederate monument in downtown Dublin not being removed, plaza also to honor Herbert 'Hub' Dudley.  (Dublin, Georgia.  Herbert Dudley was a prominent black businessman and civil rights activist.  An acceptable compromise for me anyway.)

--Old Secesh