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Residents and NAACP Press Gaston County Commissioners to Move Confederate Monument; Others Urge It Remain
Summary
During a lengthy public-comment period at the Gaston County Board of Commissioners work session, NAACP leaders and other residents urged moving the Confederate soldiers' monument to a museum for context, while descendants and veterans called it a memorial and cited an appeals-court ruling protecting its placement.
A broad cross-section of Gaston County residents used a two-minute public-comment slot at the April 14 Gaston County Board of Commissioners work session to renew calls over the Confederate soldiers' monument on the courthouse lawn.
Diana Graham, vice president of the Gastonia NAACP Branch 5394 B, said the monument creates an appearance that not all residents are welcome and urged the county to relocate the statue to a museum where it can be contextualized. "If justice is truly blind, why does a symbol of the Confederacy stand…
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