Board Hears Expert Testimony On Confederate Memorials (KY)
By JOSH JAMES 14 MINUTES AGO
The Urban County Art Review Board heard mixed opinions from area experts on the placement and treatment of two Confederate statues and a historical marker located near the Old Fayette County Courthouse Wednesday.
A slim majority of the seven historians, professors, and other experts recommended moving the statue depicting John Hunt Morgan, a general known as the Thunderbolt of the Confederacy, possibly to the Hunt-Morgan House on North Mill Street. Historian Maryjean Wall said the towering bronze likeness lionizes a scoundrel ...
... Historian Yvonne Giles, who is African-American, suggested the city keep the statues in place, adding, "I would, however, recommend that you establish a memorial monument fund that would be utilized to erect monuments for those individuals who endured 200-plus years of enslavement here in Lexington" ...
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