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Community leaders ask for removal of Confederate monument during supervisors meeting
June 17, 2020
Community leaders asked county supervisors to remove the Confederate monument from the Lowndes County Courthouse lawn on Monday. Supervisors voted 3-2 against the motion. Outside the courthouse, individuals protested in front of the monument.
Bishop R.J. Matthews looks at Bishop Scott Volland as he speaks during a board of supervisors meeting on Monday at the Lowndes County Courthouse. Even though the supervisors voted to keep it, Matthews said the movement to remove the monument is nowhere near over. “We’ll be back,” he said. Photo by: Claire Hassler/Dispatch Staff
District 5 Supervisor Leroy Brooks makes a motion for the Confederate monument to be moved from the courthouse lawn to Friendship Cemetery. “We don’t like what it stands for and what it reflects. We don’t want our children and grandchildren growing up to have to come and see the same thing,” Brooks said. Photo by: Claire Hassler/Dispatch Staff
District 1 Supervisor Harry Sanders listens as Bishop Scott Volland asks the county to consider removing a Confederate monument from the courthouse lawn during a board of supervisors meeting on Monday at the Lowndes County Courthouse. Sanders proposed that instead of relocating the statue, they compromise by adding onto the monument to address slavery. Later, Volland said that what Sanders didn’t realize is that relocating the statue already was compromising. Photo by: Claire Hassler/Dispatch Staff
Bishop Scott Volland asks the county board of supervisors to consider relocating the Confederate monument that stands on the courthouse lawn during a board of supervisors meeting on Monday at the Lowndes County Courthouse. “When we as a society no longer care about what offends our fellow citizens,” Volland said, “then all of a sudden we become the very thing that we claim to hate.” Photo by: Claire Hassler/Dispatch Staff
Community leaders who support the removal of the Confederate monument from the courthouse lawn leave after supervisors voted 3-2 to keep the statue on Monday at the Lowndes County Courthouse. As they were leaving, Bishop R.J. Matthews said that the supervisors who voted to keep the statue, who are all white, are “on the wrong side of history.” Photo by: Claire Hassler/Dispatch Staff
John Lewis takes a break from protesting near the Confederate monument that stands on the Lowndes County Courthouse lawn on Monday in Columbus. Lewis was born and raised in Columbus but now lives in Texas. He returned to Columbus on Wednesday and said he is not leaving town until the statue is removed. “Change starts from home,” Lewis said. Photo by: Claire Hassler/Dispatch Staff
From left, John Lewis and Sonniah Ramirez, 12, protest for the removal of the Confederate monument that stands on the Lowndes County Courthouse lawn on Monday in Columbus. Lewis was protesting by himself when Sonniah approached him. “Can I hold a sign with you for thirty minutes?” she asked, and then the pair stood together. Photo by: Claire Hassler/Dispatch Staff
Sonniah Ramirez, 12, observes as John Lewis points out an angle from which a Confederate soldier on a monument looks like a hooded Klansman at the Lowndes County Courthouse on Monday. Sonniah said she wanted to join Lewis in protesting for the removal of the monument because she’s tired of seeing people mistreated because of their skin color. Photo by: Claire Hassler/Dispatch Staff
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