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Father Ryan's statue is located centrally in Ryan Park on Spring Hill Avenue in Mobile, where its base is littered with trash in September 2023.On a midsummer afternoon 110 years ago, officials in Mobile unveiled a statue of Rev. Abram Joseph Ryan in front of what used to be St. Joseph’s Church.
A group of concerned community members on Monday night sent a letter and petition to Mobile Mayor Sandy Stimpson and the city council, urging them to remove the statue and rename Ryan Park. He said he noticed the statue while attending a Black Lives Matter march three years ago and realized he didn’t know about Ryan and his history.
He learned through quick research that Ryan was being honored as a Confederate, poet and chaplain of the South, and that “concerned” him, but he didn’t think much of it at first. “That didn’t necessarily mean that he was a white supremacist or that he passionately promulgated racist, white supremacist ideologies,” he said.Denton and a few other Mobillians included quotes in their letter to the city this week.
The statue appears to be protected under the Alabama Memorial Preservation Act. The act, which Gov. Kay Ivey signed into law in 2017, prohibits the “relocation, removal, alteration, renaming, or other disturbance of any monument located on public property which has been in place for 40 years or more,” according to the Alabama Historical Commission.
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