Baltimore Takes Down Its Confederate Monuments
The city removed them less than a week after violent protests broke out in Charlottesville, Virginia, over a statue of Robert E. Lee.
The city of Baltimore took down four Confederate monuments overnight, less than a week after white nationalists rallied in Charlottesville, Virginia, in support of a monument to Robert E. Lee. “They needed to come down,” the city’s Democratic mayor, Catherine Pugh, said on Wednesday morning. “We moved as quickly as we could.”
In the wake of Charlottesville, where the weekend’s demonstrations and counter-protests led on Saturday that he would work to “relocate” Confederate statues, though the state’s Republican governor on Tuesday that removing monuments would amount to a “sanitization of history.” In Durham, North Carolina, on Monday, protesters toppled a statue honoring an act that .
