Forty-eight Confederate symbols were removed, renamed or relocated in 2022 including two in Alabama, newly released splcenter data shows. The two in Alabama occurred at one time.
. Novosel’s heroism included two tours in Vietnam where he is credited for flying in 2,543 extraction missions and rescuing over 5,500 seriously wounded soldiers.Fort Rucker had long been named after the Confederate Gen. Edmund Rucker, who fought under Nathan Bedford Forrest, a slave trader and an early Ku Klux Klan leader after the Civil War. Rucker later was an business leader in Birmingham.
Fort Rucker’s renaming was one of nine U.S. Army installations redesignated based on the Naming Commission’s recommendations, and part of a process initiated last year under Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, a Mobile native and the first Black man to serve in that role.
report, first released in 2018. The report is tracks where Confederate symbols are removed and is an effort that began after nine Black people were killed in 2015 during a Bible study at Mother Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, South Carolina, by a gunman radicalized by white supremacist websites.
Malaysia Latest News, Malaysia Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
SPLC: 48 Confederate symbols removed from public square in 2022The Montgomery-based Southern Poverty Law Center has released new data as part of its ‘Whose Heritage’ report, which tracks public symbols of the Confederacy across the U.S.
Read more »
Jurors Never Heard of Alleged Accomplice Letter in Alabama Death Row Case - Alabama NewsSixteen years after David Phillip Wilson was sentenced to death for killing a man during a 2004 burglary in Houston County, the state of Alabama turned over a letter allegedly written by an accomplice saying she was the one that beat the victim with a bat until he fell.
Read more »
Latest Alabama Kids Count Data Book releasedVOICES for Alabama’s Children released its latest Alabama Kids Count Data Book.
Read more »
People Flock to Alabama State House to Support Removing State Sales Tax from Groceries - Alabama NewsAlabama lawmakers are considering removing, or phasing out, the state's 4% sales tax on food. alnews alpolitics grocerytax wakanews
Read more »
Alabama Lawmakers Advance Gov. Kay Ivey's 'Game Plan' of Industrial Incentive Bills - Alabama NewsProgress is being made on the package of industrial incentive bills that Gov. Kay Ivey calls her 'Game Plan.' alnews alpolitics wakanews
Read more »