Los Angeles Cemetery To Remove Confederate Monument
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Hollywood Forever Cemetery says it will take down a monument commemorating Confederate veterans after hundreds of people demanded its removal.
The 6-foot stone monument has stood since 1925 in a section of the famous Los Angeles graveyard where more than 30 Confederate veterans and their families are buried.
Officials said Tuesday that it would be taken to a storage site, but the grave markers will remain.
The move comes days after violence erupted at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the city's ordered removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. The events triggered a national debate about similar monuments.
Hollywood Forever president Tyler Cassity tells the Los Angeles Times that the cemetery has fielded hundreds of calls and emails asking for the monument's removal.