During the middle of the night, UT-Austin removed Robert E. Lee, Confederate Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston and Confederate Postmaster General John H. Reagan from the campus main mall.
From late Sunday night until early Monday morning, like thieves in the night, UT workers remove three Confederate statues, those of Robert E. Lee, Confederate Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston and Confederate Postmaster General John H. Reagan.
UT president Greg Fenves said that Confederate monuments have become “symbols of modern white supremacy and neo-Nazism.”
The three statues will be relocated to the university’s Brisco Center for American History.
Also removed was a statue of former Texas Gov. James Stephen Hogg. It will be placed in a different location on campus. Hogg served as governor from 1891-1895, long after the Civil War was fought and over with.
I’m surprised it took them this long. After all, UT-Austin is the Berkeley of Texas and Austin is the San Francisco of Texas.
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