A group for descendants of Confederate Civil War veterans is suing to stop an exhibit at Georgia’s Stone Mountain Park focused on the site’s connections to white supremacy, slavery and segregation.
The group says the exhibit violates a state law preserving the state-owned site as a Confederate memorial.
The country’s largest Confederate monument, the massive, natural quartz monzonite dome juts 800 feet above a forested park roughly 15 miles east of Atlanta. Carved on its face are three men on horseback: Confederate President Jefferson Davis and Generals Robert E. Lee and “Stonewall” Jackson.
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