Confederate Monument (Hollywood Forever Cemetery)

The Confederate Monument was a memorial installed in Los Angeles' Hollywood Forever Cemetery, in the U.S. state of California, honoring all Confederates who had died or would die on the Pacific coast. Erected in 1925 in the Confederate section of the cemetery, it was removed in August 2017.[1]

Confederate Monument
The monument in 2013
LocationHollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Description

The quotation on the plaque is from Rudyard Kipling's poem "Recessional" (1897): "Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget—lest we forget!"[2]

History

The monument was "covered with a tarp and whisked away in the middle of the night after activists called for its removal and vandals spray-painted the word 'No' on its back," on August 15, 2017.[3][4] This was inspired by the events of the white nationalist Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 11–12.[1][5]

See also

References
  1. Tchekmedyian, Alene (August 16, 2017). "Hollywood Forever Cemetery removes Confederate monument after calls from activists and vandalism threats". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved August 16, 2017.
  2. "Rudyard Kipling - Wikiquote". en.wikiquote.org. Retrieved 2017-09-21.
  3. Bosman, Julie (September 21, 2017). "Battle Over Confederate Monuments Moves to the Cemeteries". The New York Times.
  4. FOX. "Confederate monument at Hollywood Forever Cemetery to be removed". KTTV. Archived from the original on August 16, 2017. Retrieved August 16, 2017.
  5. "Hollywood Forever Cemetery removes Confederate monument". KPCC. August 16, 2017. Retrieved August 16, 2017.

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