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.
2020.07.27 Henry County Confederate Monument
The Henry County Board of Commissioners voted to remove it, but contracting issues prevented this. Hundreds of protesters came out three weeks later to condemn the lack of action and it was removed less than 24 hours after the protest.
2020.06.16 La Jornada, Albuquerque, New Mexico USA
Activists gathered demanding removal of the statue on June 15, 2020. A protestor was shot by a man reportedly antagonizing many of those gathered. As of October 31, 2020 the City of Albuquerque is in favor of not replacing it.
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 Henry Lawson Wyatt Monument
This monument was removed alongside all other Confederate monuments on North Carolina’s State Capitol Grounds in June of 2020. Several figures from other statues nearby were removed by protestors and hung from light posts the night before removal.
2020.06.20 Women of the Confederacy
The statue was removed by the city of Raleigh by order of the Governor on June 6, 2020. The statue was previously defaced with “Black Lives Matter” in 2015 a few weeks after the deadly shooting of nine Black Americans at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
2020.07.04 Christopher Columbus Statue
The statue was beheaded by protesters on 2020.07.03. After city council voted for the statue to remain, the head was re-attached on 2020.12.02.
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.
2020.07.23 St. Junipero Serra Ventura, California USA
The bronze statue was removed and relocated to Mission San Buenaventura.
2020.06.18 Don Diego de Vargas, Santa Fe, New Mexico USA
Removed by city after formal call for removal from indigenous activists and organizations; also as a response to violence in the state around controversial monuments
2020.08.11 Talbot Boy Statue
The statue has been covered with signs in support of Black lives and calling for its removal. No serious defacement or attempted topplings. The state and county have reviewed and shot down several calls for its removal.
2020.06.22 Andrew Jackson Statue
Defaced July 4, 2015 with BLM and Justice for D tags. Defaced June 30, 2015 when someone adorned the monument with a Native American model head. Defaced with the phrase "Slave Owner" and red paint on June 22, 2020 and again the next day with a remembrance for those lost in the Trail of Tears. Most recently, it was given a pumpkin head in October 26, 2020.
2020.09.27 Statue of John Pelham
The city council voted four to one to remove the statue after the national protests in summer of 2020, with potential plans for relocation.
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.”
2021.02.06 General Joseph E. Johnston
The statue, originally located at the intersection of Hamilton and Crawford Streets, was relocated to the Huff House, the home of the Whitfield-Murray Historical Society.
The statue is property of the United Daughters of the Confederacy who used money from private donors to fund the relocation.
Commissioned and placed at it’s original downtown location in 1912, representatives from the Whitfield-Murray Historical Society say they expect it to stay at its new location for years to come and has already seen dozens of supportive visitors.
Sources: Preston Steger, WRCB and Isaiah Kim-Martinez, Chattanooga Channel 9 News
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.