Dem. Rep files bills to remove Stone Mountain as memorial to Confederacy
Georgia State Representative LaDawn Jones, a Democrat from DeKalb County, has kept her promise.
Jones recently filed a House Bill 760 to “change the purpose of Stone Mountain” and allow elected officials and bureaucrats to effectively change, alter, and remove monuments from certain memorials. Specifically, House Bill 760 would:
Currently, no co-sponsors are listed on the bill. Read the entire piece of legislation here.
Jones recently filed a House Bill 760 to “change the purpose of Stone Mountain” and allow elected officials and bureaucrats to effectively change, alter, and remove monuments from certain memorials. Specifically, House Bill 760 would:
- Eliminate Stone Mountain Memorial Park as a memorial to the Confederacy
- Give the state, any state agencies, authorities, departments, and/or instrumentalities overseeing such monuments the ability to change, alter, and remove memorials and monuments and replace them with ones they believe to be “appropriate” and “historically accurate.”
- Changes the word “Confederate,” when referring to memorials, to “Civil War Era”
Currently, no co-sponsors are listed on the bill. Read the entire piece of legislation here.
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