Georgia Approves Changes to Stone Mountain Park, ‘Shrine to White Supremacy’
Organizer Quintavious Rhodes addresses Black Lives Matter protesters during a march in Stone Mountain Park on June 16, 2020. Activists have long called for Stone Mountain’s carved relief of Confederate generals to be taken down.
On Monday, the Stone Mountain Memorial Association board voted to implement a number of changes at the eponymous park, which is home to the world’s largest Confederate monument. As Tyler Estep reports for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution , approved resolutions include creating an on-site exhibit that seeks to “tell the truth” about the park’s past, relocating a Confederate flag plaza to a less-trafficked area and designing a new logo. Stone Mountain Park’s controversial mountainside carving of Confederate leaders will remain intact.
“Some people are going to say not going far enough,” Bill Stephens, the chief executive of the Stone Mountain Memorial Association, which oversees the park, tells Timothy Pratt and Rick Rojas of the New York Times. “Others are going to say they’re going too far.”
A close-up view of the Stone Mountain carving, which depicts General Robert E. Lee, Confederate President Jefferson Davis and General Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson on horseback
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