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The Peace Monument in Atlanta’s Piedmont Park. The city is erecting contextual markers next to four Confederate monuments to address the role of slavery in the Civil War.
ATLANTA — Atlanta is about to publicly reckon with slavery and its monuments to the Civil War. As early as next week, the city will begin installing a series of contextual markers around four of ...
ATLANTA — The 1911 Peace Monument sits near the entrance gate to Atlanta's Piedmont Park at 14th Street and Piedmont Avenue. In its original form, the statue included inscriptions commemorating ...
Atlanta NAACP criticizes markers around city's Confederate monuments. ... New panels at the base of the Confederate-era Peace Monument in Piedmont Park provides historical context to the original ...
A new marker stands after being placed near the Peace Monument in Piedmont Park, Friday, Aug. 2, 2019, in Atlanta. The idea behind the new sign and others like it is to add context about the South ...
Atlanta city leaders are still moving to place markers on monuments to the Confederacy around the city, but the project is running into red tape Over the past year, protests regarding the presence ...
It was easy to miss the stairs and the historic marker commemorating Gold Tooth John, handyman for the Plaster family on Piedmont Circle in Midtown. To stream 11Alive on your phone, you need the ...