Confederate plaque tarred and feathered in Arizona

This is not an exhaustive list of confederate courthouse monuments:

Alabama courthouse monuments

  1. Ashville: Confederate Soldiers of Ashville Monument, St. Clair County Courthouse, erected in 1923, United Daughters of the Confederacy, Ashville Chapter.[11]
  2. Athens: Confederate Soldiers Memorial, Limestone County Courthouse, erected in 1922, United Confederate Veterans and United Daughters of the Confederacy.[12]
  3. Butler: Confederate Monument, Choctaw County Courthouse, erected in 1936, United Daughters of the Confederacy, Choctaw Ruffin Dragoon Chapter.[13]
  4. Carrollton: Confederate War Memorial, Pickens County Courthouse, erected in 1927.[14]
  5. Centre: Confederate Memorial (1988)
  6. Centreville: Confederate Monument, Bibb County Courthouse, erected in 1910, United Daughters of the Confederacy, Leonard Calloway Pratt Chapter No. 1056.[15]
  7. Decatur: Confederate Monument, near Morgan County Courthouse, erected in 1922, United Daughters of the Confederacy, Joe Wheeler Chapter No. 291.[16]
  8. Fayette: Confederate Monument, Fayette County Courthouse, erected in 1929, United Daughters of the Confederacy, Fayette Chapter.[17]
  9. Florence: Confederate Monument, Lauderdale County Courthouse, erected in 1903, Ladies Memorial Association.[18]
  10. Greensboro: Confederate Monument, Hale County Courthouse, erected in 1904, Ladies Memorial Association of Greensboro.
  11. Huntsville: Confederate Veterans Memorial, Madison County Courthouse, erected in 1905, United Daughters of the Confederacy.[19]
  12. Jasper: Confederate Monument, Walker County Courthouse, erected in 1907, Jasper County Chapter 925, United Daughters of the Confederacy.[20]
  13. Livingston: Confederate Monument, Sumter County Courthouse, erected in 1908, United Daughters of the Confederacy, Sumter Chapter.[21]
  14. Moulton: Confederate Monument (2006)
  15. Tuscumbia: Confederate Veterans Monument, Colbert County Courthouse, erected in 1911, United Daughters of the Confederacy, Tuscumbia Chapter.[22]
  16. Tuskegee: Confederate Monument, Town Square, erected in 1909, United Daughters of the Confederacy of Macon County, Alabama.[23]

Arkansas Courthouse Monuments:

  1. Arkadelphia Confederate Monument (1911)
  2. Blytheville Confederate War Memorial (1934)
  3. Camden Confederate Monument (1915)
  4. Conway Confederate Monument (1925)
  5. El Dorado Confederate Monument (1909)
  6. Ft. Smith Confederate Monument (1903)
  7. Lake Village Confederate Monument (1910)
  8. Lonoke Confederate Monument (1910)
  9. Marion: Crittenden County Civil War Memorial (1936)
  10. Osceola: Osceola Confederate Monument (1934)
  11. Searcy Confederate Monument. Erected in 1917 on the grounds of the White County courhouse. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in White County, Arkansas. Consists of a statue of a Confederate soldier.[57]
  12. Van Buren Confederate Monument (1899)

Georgia Courthouse Monuments:

  1. Butler: Taylor County Confederate Monument (1911)
  2. Cairo: Confederate Memorial
  3. Carnesville: Franklin County Confederate Monument (1910)
  4. Carrollton: Confederate Monument (1910)
  5. Cartersville: Confederate memorial at the Bartow County Courthouse
  6. Cedartown: Polk County Confederate Monument (1906)
  7. Conyers: Confederate Monument (1913)
  8. Covington: Confederate War Memorial (1906)
  9. Crawfordville: Confederate Monument (1898)
  10. Cusseta: Confederate Veterans Monument
  11. Douglasville: Confederate War Memorial (1914)
  12. Dublin: Laurens County Confederate Monument (1912)
  13. Eastman: Confederate Monument of Eastman (1910)
  14. Eatonton: Birthplace of Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (1936)
  15. Ellaville: Schley County Confederate Monument (1910)
  16. Forsyth: Confederate Monument (1907)
  17. Greensboro: Greene County Confederate Monument (1898)
  18. Hartwell: Confederate Monument (1908)
  19. Hawkinsville: Confederate Monument (1908)
  20. Hazlehurst: Jefferson Davis Bust
  21. Hinesville: Liberty County Confederate Monument (1928)
  22. Jackson: Monument to Butts County Confederate Soldiers (1911)
  23. Jeffersonville: Confederate memorial at the Twiggs County Courthouse
  24. Lawrenceville: Lawrenceville Confederate Memorial (1990)
  25. Lexington: Oglethorpe County Confederate Monument (1916)
  26. Lumpkin: Stewart County Confederate Monument (1908)
  27. McDonough: Confederate Memorial Drinking Fountain (1915)
  28. Millen: Jenkins County Confederate Monument, Jenkins County Courthouse (1909)
  29. Monroe: Confederate Monument (1907)
  30. Moultrie: Colquitt County Confederate Monument, Colquitt County Courthouse (1909)
  31. Mount Vernon: Confederate Monument, Montgomery County Courthouse (1997)
  32. Nashville: Confederate Memorial, Berrien County Courthouse
  33. Newnan: William Thomas Overby — Confederate Hero Monument (1956)
  34. Ocilla: Irwin County Confederate Monument (1911)
  35. Oglethorpe: Confederate Monument, Courthouse lawn, unveiled on February 20, 1923[123]
  36. Perry: Houston County Confederate Monument (1908)
  37. Quitman: Confederate memorial, Brooks County Courthouse
  38. Sparta: Hancock County Confederate Monument (1881)
  39. Thomaston: Confederate monument, Upson County Courthouse, erected in 1908. [124]
  40. Toccoa: Stephens County Confederate Monument (1922)
  41. Valdosta: Confederate memorial, Lowdnes County Courthouse
  42. Vienna: Dooly County Confederate Monument (1908)
  43. Warrenton: Warren County Confederate Monument (1904)
  44. Wrightsville: Jefferson Davis Highway Marker

Massachusetts:

Brandon: Rankin County Confederate Monument 1907 Charleston: Confederate Monument Cleveland: Confederate Monument, dedicated in 1908, by the Bolivar Troop Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, Bolivar County Columbus: Lowndes County Confederate Monument 1912 Corinth: Col. William P. Rogers statue, dedicated in 1895 moved to grounds of Alcorn County courthouse in 1920. Contributing element #109b, Downtown Corinth Historic District.[154] Ellisville: Jones County Courthouse and Confederate Monument Greenville: Confederate Monument 1909 Greenwood: Confederate Monument 1913 Gulfport: Confederate Monument, dedicated in 1911, by the United Daughters of the Confederacy and Board of Supervisors of Harrison County Hattiesburg: Confederate Memorial; dedicated by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1910[155] Hazlehurst: Confederate Monument 1917 Kosciusko: Attala County Courthouse and Confederate Monument 1911 Laurel: Confederate Memorial 1912 Lexington: Confederate Monument 1908 Macon: Confederate Memorial Monument 1901 Meridian: Confederate Monument 1912 Oxford: Confederate Monument 1907 Philadelphia: Confederate Monument 1912 Pontotoc: Confederate Monument, dedicated in 1919,[156] or the 1930s[157] Quitman: Clarke County Courthouse and Confederate Monument 1911 Raymond: Confederate Monument 1908 Ripley: Confederate Monument 1911, destroyed in 1970[note 2] Sumner: Confederate Monument 1913 Tupelo: Confederate Monument, dedicated in 1906. In 1930s, monument was moved to Lee County Courthouse square.

I think you get the idea. The talking point someone handed you is full of hooey and makes anyone look ignorant to repeat it. Here is a full list of all the monuments to a group of racist losers in the United States. It's not just courthouses, but schools, parks, roadways and even license plates. There is tons of this junk all over the place, and it all needs removed to somewhere where it has a historical context and is not in a place of reverence.

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