On the Fourth of July, members of Atlanta’s NAACP branch marched up Stone Mountain calling for the removal of the Confederate monument.
It’s the largest in the country and the carving on the north side of the mountain features Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson.
Atlanta’s NAACP President Richard Rose said it’s the carvings’ origins that bother him.
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