2020.06.19. ST. JUNIPERO SERRA
A monument to St. Junipero Serra was toppled in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. The statue was pulled down by rope after it was doused with red paint.
2020.06.19. Memorial to confederate soldiers & sailors
Two statues that sat on the larger structure of the monument were toppled by protestors on Juneteenth. They were dragged through the streets. One was hung from a lamppost and the other was later carried away by police on a golf cart. On June 20, 2020 the rest of the monument was removed by the city.
2020.06.19. Albert Pike
On Juneteeth, June 19, 2020 protestors toppled an 11-foot statue of Albert Pike, the only statue in the city of a Confederate general. Then they set a bonfire and stood around it in a circle as the statue burned, chanting, “No justice, no peace! No racist police!”
2020.06.20 St. Junipero Serra
Toppled by protestors in Placita Olvera, downtown Los Angeles. The statue was roped and painted before being brought to the ground.
2020.10.12 The Soldiers Monument Obelisk
On 2020.10.12 at the conclusion of a three-day occupation of Santa Fe Plaza, activists ultimately toppled the obelisk after defacing it with red handprints and spray-painted messages. Several arrests by police were made in the aftermath of the toppling. The City of Santa Fe has convened multiple times to decide whether to replace the monument with a different monument, a public art commission, or leave the Plaza empty. Organizers from CHART (Culture, History, Art, Reconciliation, Truth) are actively discussing with community members how to proceed.
The memorial was first defaced in 1974 by an anonymous activist who chiseled off the word “savage” describing local “Indians.”
2021.02.04 Gwinnett County Confederate Monument
In 1993, the United Daughters of the Confederacy obtained permission to place a monument on the grounds of the county courthouse. The resulting work was dedicated to local men who fought in the Confederate armed forces.
2020.12.07 Stonewall Jackson, Virginia Military Institute
The Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, VA executed the removal of its prominently placed Confederate General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson monument on 2020.12.07. The Institute’s board voted in favor of its removal in October.
2020.10.20 Sterling Price Monument
City bulldozers removed the stone from alongside a city street and took it to storage.