(18 Sep 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Grenada, Mississippi – 12 April 2024
1. Various of Confederate monument wrapped in tarps
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Grenada, Mississippi – 11 September 2024
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Mayor Charles Latham, Grenada, Mississippi:
"Well it’s been quite a divisive figure, if you will."
3. Wide of monument strapped to truck
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Mayor Charles Latham, Grenada, Mississippi:
"I understand people had family and stuff to fight and die in that war and they should be proud of their family but you’ve got to understand that there were those who were oppressed by this."
5. Wide of monument strapped to truck
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Mayor Charles Latham, Grenada, Mississippi:
"The confederate flag on there; there’s been a lot of hate and violence perpetrated against people of color under the color of that flag."
7. Wide of crews taking down statue
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Mayor Charles Latham, Grenada, Mississippi:
"That’s why it’s divisive and the City Council made the decision to have it relocated to another city property South of town and that’s what we’re doing today. We’re in fact carrying out the decision that the City Council in 2020 made."
9. Various of truck leaving site of monument
STORYLINE:
A Mississippi town has taken down a Confederate monument that stood since 1910.
The figure was wrapped by tarps the past four years, symbolizing division over how to commemorate the past.
The Grenada City Council voted to move the monument in 2020, after Mississippi legislators retired a state flag featuring the Confederate battle emblem.
A new Grenada mayor and city council took office in May.
Last Wednesday, a crew removed the 20-foot stone structure. It is supposed to go behind a fire station.
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