The 1911 Jefferson Davis statue erected in the Jim Crow racial segregation era is taken off of its pedestal in New Orleans, La. Thursday, May 11, 2017.The city council voted to remove the monument and ...

A Confederate monument in Arizona dedicated to the first and only president of the Confederate States of America, Jefferson Davis, was recently tarred and feathered. Suggested Reading Paris Jackson ...

A Confederate monument that was removed from a courthouse square in Mississippi will remain in storage rather than being put up at a new site while a lawsuit over its future is considered, a city ...

Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser asked Mayor Mitch Landrieu on Monday to turn over Confederate monuments taken down in New Orleans over the past few weeks to his office. But city officials said Nungesser or ...

Mississippi observes Jefferson Davis' birthday, combined with Memorial Day, as a state holiday. This is one of three Confederate holidays observed in Mississippi, including Robert E. Lee/MLK Day and ...

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GRENADA, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi town has taken down a Confederate monument that stood on the courthouse square since 1910 — a figure that was tightly wrapped in tarps the past four years, ...

Why Section 3 of the 14th Amendment was added to the Constitution and remains relevant. By Mark A. Graber The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on tourism at Beauvoir, the former home of Jefferson Davis.

Mississippi honors Confederate President Jefferson Davis today. The Magnolia State isn't the only one to honor him with a state holiday or local celebration, but it is the only one to combine it with ...