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The Sons of Confederate Veterans allege the park’s changes to its Civil War history exhibits violate state law.
The group claims the plans for the exhibit violate state law.
The 90-foot carving on the side of Stone Mountain in Georgia is the largest Confederate monument in the world. As the U.S. undergoes racial reckoning, the monument's future remains in doubt.
Changes announced last week at Georgia’s Stone Mountain Park, home to the nation’s largest Confederate monument, are “the boldest step that has been taken” at the park since the state ...
STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. — The Confederate flags that have long flapped at the base of Stone Mountain, placed there by the United Daughters of the Confederacy, will be moved to a less prominent area, ...
The four Confederate flags fly at the base of Stone Mountain’s popular walk-up trail on Tuesday, April 20, 2021. (Hyosub Shin, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution/TNS) ...
A stalled ‘start’ To be clear, the approved-but-still-to-come changes at Stone Mountain Park don’t fully satisfy anyone. Groups like the Sons of Confederate Veterans, of course, want nothing ...
Over 2,000 Confederate memorials are still in place across the country. More than 60 years after Martin Luther King Jr. uttered 'Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia,' racial and ...
Stone Mountain looms over Georgia’s landscape like a silent witness to history, its gray granite face carved with figures that spark fierce debate even today. Imagine standing at the foot of ...
STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. - A group of state representatives in DeKalb County has proposed big changes to Stone Mountain Park. Democratic State Rep. Billy Mitchell, whose district represents the park ...
The Confederate flags are still there. All four of them. They still fly a few hundred paces up Stone Mountain, high atop their poles in a stone plaza, where the hundreds or thousands of people who … ...