Effort to remove Confederate monument in St. Louis is gaining crowdfunding
St. Louis may soon join the growing list of cities removing monuments to the Confederacy.
City Treasurer Tishaura Jones created a GoFundMe account Wednesday to raise money for the removal of a Confederate monument in Forest Park.
“TAKE IT DOWN ST. LOUIS,” reads the description on the page, next to an image of the monument. Though no other information is given, the entreaty was enough to garner more than $5,000 of a $25,000 goal in its first 20 hours.
Jones joins Mayor Lyda Krewson in calling for the removal of the 32-foot-tall monument. Dedicated in 1914, it features a bronze tablet depicting a Confederate soldier leaving his family for the Civil War. An angel hovers above them. An inscription reads that the monument was erected “in memory of the soldiers and sailors of the Confederate States By the United Daughters of the Confederacy of Saint Louis.”
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