UPDATED April 3, 2025: In the wake of Black Lives Matter protests, monuments to the Confederacy around the country have been reassessed, recontextualized, and in some cases removed altogether, either by local governments or by the protesters themselves.
Atlanta responded in 2017 by creating an advisory committee to determine what to do with four monuments on city property. That effort produced several new contextual markers and the renaming of Confederate Avenue to United Avenue in 2018.
In 2019, Georgia passed a law that prohibits anyone, including local officials, from removing, defacing or changing Confederate monuments. Soon after, some local governments erected contextual markers next to monuments, such as the Peace Monument in Piedmont Park. Others, such as Decatur and Kennesaw , have sidestepped or challenged the state law.
LION OF THE CONFEDERACY (REMOVED from Oakland Cemetery)…