As statues of figures from America's slave-owning past come down across the nation, the largest Confederate monument ever crafted may outlast them all.
Tate Reeves signed a bill to remove the Confederate emblem from the state flag.STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. -- Some statues of figures from America's slave-owning past have been yanked down by protesters, others dismantled by order of governors or city leaders. But the largest Confederate monument ever crafted — colossal figures carved into the solid rock of a Georgia mountainside — may outlast them all.
After organizing a protest where thousands marched in neighboring Atlanta, 19-year-old Zoe Bambara held a demonstration June 4 with a much smaller group — her permit allowed no more than 25 — inside the state park where the sculpture has drawn millions of tourists for decades. “With the logistics, the safety aspect of it, you’d have a budget certainly north of $1 million, I suspect," Bentkowski said. “You’ll need insurance for the project, you’ll need hazard pay for people working on the surface of it. It could easily take a year or more.
Other ideas — such as adding a bell tower atop the mountain in honor of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. — have failed to take hold. And Democratic proposals to strip the protective language from Georgia law have fallen flat with the Republican-controlled Legislature. “It looked like a giant billboard," said Stan Deaton, senior historian for the Georgia Historical Society.
“It became the centerpiece of the park," Deaton said."There was never any doubt that the state's intention of finishing this was of a piece with massive resistance.”
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