The legislature in 2017 enacted a bill which prohibits local governments from removing monuments without approval.

Of those symbols, 685 are Confederate monuments, the nonprofit legal advocacy group based in Montgomery, Alabama, said. The remaining symbols are a mixture of government buildings, plaques ...

In a symbolic rebuke of the American South’s racist history, an old Confederate monument now has a meaningful ... the Confederacy’s fall, with a plaque calling the Civil War an “unflinching ...

Of those symbols, 685 are Confederate monuments, the nonprofit legal advocacy group based in Montgomery, Alabama, said. The remaining symbols are a mixture of government buildings, plaques ...