Communities across US unsure of what to do with Confederate monuments after removing them

As communities across the US remove Confederate monuments from public spaces, city leaders now face another conundrum: what to do with the statues. As communities across the United States redouble efforts to remove Confederate monuments from public spaces after a far-right rally in Virginia turned deadly, city leaders now face another conundrum: what to do with the statues. Anna Lopez Brosche, city council president in Jacksonville, Florida, encouraged the removal of Confederate statues from public property on Monday and proposed placing them where they will be “historically contextualised.” In Lexington, Kentucky, Mayor Jim Gray has proposed removing statues from one city park, formerly the site of a slave auction block and whipping post. The group, founded in 1894 by women descended from Confederate soldiers, put up many of the statues as part of their goal to display what they call “a truthful history” of the Civil War and mark places “made historic by Confederate valour.” Some historians argue that, as in Eastern Europe, the Confederate monuments should be preserved, but in the proper context.