A pro-Confederate group wants judges to stop the removal of a monument stationed outside a North Carolina county courthouse since 1907.
WRAL reports that the United Daughters of the Confederacy filed a lawsuit aiming to stop Chatham County’s plans to remove the Confederate monument that the group donated more than a century ago.
County commissioners gave the UDC until this month to submit a proposal for what to do with the statue. The group didn’t offer a plan, so commissioners voted Monday to take down the statue if the UDC doesn’t act by the end of next week.
The lawsuit seeks a court order preventing the monument’s removal.
Moves to remove the monument have sparked protests that led to the arrest of six people in the past month.
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