Georgia lawsuit filed over adding civil rights, KKK history to world’s largest Confederate monument

The Georgia Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans filed a lawsuit alleging the Stone Mountain Memorial Association is violating a state law requiring the association to maintain the park as an “appropriate and suitable memorial for the Confederacy.”

The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in DeKalb Superior Court, targets a planned “truth-telling” museum at the park.

The planned exhibit ”is completely contrary to the purposes of the Georgia law for the Stone Mountain Memorial Park as designed by the people of Georgia through their representatives,” the lawsuit states…

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