Edenton’s Monument Wars Continue (NC)
A fight over the fate of a Confederate statue in Edenton has been going on since 2020. Now the lawsuit is going another round.
A fight over the fate of a Confederate statue in Edenton has been going on since 2020. Now the lawsuit is going another round.
After a group of eastern North Carolina residents sued elected officials in the town of Edenton and Chowan County over a controversial vote to relocate a Confederate monument, the local governing boards took a mulligan.
The residents had accused the boards of hammering out details of the relocation in secret in violation of the state’s open meetings law. So the town and the county terminated the agreement they’d reached in November, held several public hearings with open comment periods, and ultimately arrived at the same decision: The statue of the seven-foot-tall, bronze gun-wielding Confederate soldier installed in the early 1900s is to be moved from the prominent Edenton waterfront property where it now stands to the county courthouse grounds.
This fight over the fate of the statue has been going on since 2020 when protests erupted across the country after…
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