Confederacy group sues Georgia park for planning an exhibit on slavery and segregation
Stone Moune, Ga. (AP) – The Georgian Department of a Confederation Group filed a lawsuit against a state park with the country’s largest confederation monument this week and claimed that the authorities had broken state law by planning an exhibition on slavery, discrimination and white superiority.
Stone Mountain’s big carving Confederation President Jefferson Davis, Gen. Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” depict Jackson on horseback. Critics that have been pushing for changes for a long time It covers the mythology of the “lost cause ön which makes the monument’s confederation case romantic as the struggle for rights of a state, but protects the state law from any change.
After encouraging the calculations made on police savagery, racial inequality throughout the country and the abolition of dozens of confederation monument in 2020, Stone Mountain Memorial Association, which controls the Stone Mountain Park, Voting in 2021 To re -establish the flags of the Confederation and to create an exhibition that tells the role of the site in the rebirth of Klu Klux Klan and the discriminatory roots of the vote.
In the court documents of the Georgian department of the veterans of the Confederation, the decision of the Board’s decision to carry the flags ‘flags’ flags in a march in a march claims that they violate the Georgian law.
Martin O’Toole, the spokesperson of the department, said, “When they come after history and try to change everything to the existing political structure, this is contrary to this law.”
Stone Mountain Park markets itself as a family theme park and is a popular walking point to the east of Atlanta. The monument in the northern area of the mountain, which was completed in 1972, is 190 feet (27 meters) along 58 meters (27 meters). The combined girls of the confederation hired the carved sculptor Gutzon Borglum later Mount RushmoreMaking carving in 1915.
In the same year, the film “The Birth of a Nation” celebrated its return with a cross -burning on the top of Stone Mountain in 10 episodes of Şükran Night in 1915.
Stone Mountain Memorial Association hired the Birmingham -based Warner museums specialized in civil rights facilities to design the exhibition in 2022.
“The interpreter themes developed for Stone Mountain were a fertile ground for the development of collective memory, social and economic deterioration created by the Southern people in response to the foundation of the Southern society, the slavery institution, an expansion of the west, a destructive war and the final military defeat.”
The other parts of the exhibition will discuss how the confederation’s united girls and confederation veterans maintain their sons and support the “lost cause” ideology by supporting monuments, educational programs and racial distinction laws in the south. He would also tell the stories of a small black community living near the mountain after the war.
The General Assembly of Georgia allocated $ 11 million to pay the exhibition in 2023 and to renew the monumental hall of the park. The exhibition is not open yet. The parking spokesman did not respond immediately to the request for comments.
The board of the park in 2021 Voted to change Logo to a lake in the park from the image of the Confederation carving.
The sons of the members of the Confederation veterans honored the confederation soldiers.
The changes in the park will “root the installation of the park” and “will completely change the emphasis of the park and the purpose defined by the law of the Georgian province,” he said.
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