Downtown Greensboro, at Hamburger Square and MLK Drive, Greensboro has two Civil War Monuments and a sign. They are not statues with people on them, but monuments like the one above that explain details of Civil War history relevant to this region. The sign in the background tells when the Confederate Cabinet met here. The monument above is the Army of Tennessee Monument. It was dedicated in 1985. To the left of it is the Confederate Soldiers Monument, dedicated in 1986. North Carolina has a Civil War Sesquicentennial Committee that is involved in developing information and executing monuments in a manner that is historically accurate. It will be interesting to see what changes come to Greensboro. Two very public changes have been the renaming of Aycock Auditorium on UNCG's campus and renaming Aycock Middle School. So far, Greensboro's changes have been made with input from stakeholders and peacefully.
If you head downtown to see these monuments, be careful and use the crosswalks. The monuments are near railroad tracks, trains coming and going, and several streets coming together at once. They are worth a visit!
This would seem to be a proper historical marker, and the others you mention being the same. Unlike so many of the statues that were put up largely at the height of the Jim Crow laws era.
Posted by: William Kendall | Thursday, August 24, 2017 at 10:41 AM