Violence that erupted at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia over the weekend has added momentum to a wave of efforts across the South to remove or relocate Confederate monuments.
Lexington, Kentucky, Mayor Jim Gray said Sunday he wants to remove two Confederate statutes from prominent spots in his city. The memorials to John C. Breckinridge and John Hunt Morgan are perched outside a former courthouse that was the site of slave auctions before the Civil War.
In Nashville, dozens of protesters gathered in the Tennessee Capitol on Monday to renew calls to remove a bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate cavalry general and an early leader of the Ku Klux Klan. Protesters draped a black jacket over the head of the bust while chanting, “Tear it down!”