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Florida's Tribute to the Women of the Confederacy

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In 2021, Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry requested $ 1.3 million to dismantle the memorial, but the city council blocked the request. In 2022, the council adopted a one-year plan to host "community conversations" by mid-year; as of December, no such meetings had been held.
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Ultimately, the Jessie Ball duPont Fund and anonymous donors donated $ 187,000 to 904WARD, a nonprofit organization, so that the statues on the monument could be removed. The removal work was done by ACON Construction on December 27, 2023.
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voted to ask each Confederate veteran to contribute $ 5 (equivalent to $ 158 in 2023) to fund a monument to the Confederacy's women, "who were the heroines of that struggle".
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Such early-20th-century Confederate memorials were "part and parcel of the initiation of legally mandated segregation and widespread disenfranchisement across the South", the
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In May 2018, the monument was cited among those targeted by the March for Change, a three-day, 40-mile (64-km) protest against Confederate monuments in Jacksonville and
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Leib, Jonathan I.; Webster, Gerald R.; Webster, Roberta H. (December 1, 2000). "Rebel with a cause? Iconography and public memory in the Southern United States".
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On December 27, 2023, the large statue in the monument and the smaller one on top were removed by order of Donna Deegan, the mayor of Jacksonville.
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The memorial was erected in 1915, during the peak of Confederate monument-building, part of widespread campaigns to promote and justify
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states who "sacrificed their all upon their country's altar" during the Confederacy's
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Outdoor memorial to Confederate women in Jacksonville, Florida's Springfield Park
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In 1992, the memorial's condition was deemed "treatment needed" by the
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laws in the South. A plaque says the memorial honors women of the
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Removed Confederate States of America monuments and memorials
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30°20′05″N 81°39′16″W / 30.33481°N 81.65447°W / 30.33481; -81.65447
Jacksonville, Florida
Allen George Newman
Confederate memorial
Jacksonville, Florida
Springfield Park
Jim Crow
Confederate
1861-65 war
United Confederate Veterans
Allen George Newman
Jno. Williams, Inc.
McNeel Marble Works
American Historical Association
Reconstruction
Smithsonian Institution
Save Outdoor Sculpture!
St. Augustine, Florida
Make It Right Project
Plaque
In May 2018
Inside
1915 in art
List of Confederate monuments and memorials
Removal of Confederate monuments and memorials
"A Tribute to the Women of the Southern Confederacy - Jacksonville, FL - American Civil War Monuments and Memorials on Waymarking.com"


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