3 North Carolina Confederate Monuments Will Stay In Place, Commission Decides

As communities across the country grapple with what to do with their Confederate monuments, North Carolina has decided that three monuments at its state Capitol will remain in place.

A committee of the North Carolina Historical Commission says it finds the monuments to be “an over-representation and over-memorialization of a difficult era in NC history.”

But it says its hands are tied. The commission’s motion, which was passed on Wednesday, says it does not have the legal authority to recommend that the statues be moved because of a 2015 North Carolina law, “because removal or relocation is not required to preserve these three monuments.”