Andrew Jackson.
In-office from 1829 to 1837, he owned more than 500 slaves during his lifetime and was a key figure in the forced relocation of nearly 100,000 Native Americans.
Several monuments depicting one of his predecessors, US president Thomas Jefferson, (1801-1809), have also been vandalized. He drew up the US Declaration of Independence but owned more than 600 slaves.
And New York City is to remove a statue of former president Theodore Roosevelt, long criticized as a racist and colonialist symbol.
The bronze sculpture of Roosevelt, which has been at the entrance of the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) for 80 years, depicts the former leader on horseback towering over a black man and a Native American man -- who are both on foot.
US protesters have been avidly targeting statues symbolizing the Confederate States during the American Civil War, which pitted the pro-slavery South against the abolitionist North from 1861-1865.
A statue of Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States, was toppled in Richmond, Virginia.
Demonstrators in Washington also tore down a statue of Albert Pike, the only one of a Southern Civil War general in the nation's capital.
Earlier in June, in Boston, a statue of Christopher Columbus was beheaded, another vandalised in downtown Miami with red paint, and third was dragged into a lake in Richmond, Virginia.
The Italian explorer, long hailed as the so-called discoverer of "The New World," is considered by many to have spurred years of genocide against indigenous groups in the Americas
In Prague, a statue to Britain’s World War II leader Winston Churchill was covered in graffiti daubed with the words "Black Lives Matter" in solidarity with the anti-racist movement in the United States
The Confederate War Memorial, Dallas, Texas.
Silent Sam, Chapel Hill, North Carolina (toppled August 20, 2018).
The statues of Robert E. Lee and "Stonewall" Jackson, in Charlottesville, Virginia
Spirit of the Confederacy, Houston, Texas.
John C.
In-office from 1829 to 1837, he owned more than 500 slaves during his lifetime and was a key figure in the forced relocation of nearly 100,000 Native Americans.
Several monuments depicting one of his predecessors, US president Thomas Jefferson, (1801-1809), have also been vandalized. He drew up the US Declaration of Independence but owned more than 600 slaves.
And New York City is to remove a statue of former president Theodore Roosevelt, long criticized as a racist and colonialist symbol.
The bronze sculpture of Roosevelt, which has been at the entrance of the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) for 80 years, depicts the former leader on horseback towering over a black man and a Native American man -- who are both on foot.
US protesters have been avidly targeting statues symbolizing the Confederate States during the American Civil War, which pitted the pro-slavery South against the abolitionist North from 1861-1865.
A statue of Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States, was toppled in Richmond, Virginia.
Demonstrators in Washington also tore down a statue of Albert Pike, the only one of a Southern Civil War general in the nation's capital.
Earlier in June, in Boston, a statue of Christopher Columbus was beheaded, another vandalised in downtown Miami with red paint, and third was dragged into a lake in Richmond, Virginia.
The Italian explorer, long hailed as the so-called discoverer of "The New World," is considered by many to have spurred years of genocide against indigenous groups in the Americas
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The Confederate War Memorial, Dallas, Texas.Silent Sam, Chapel Hill, North Carolina (toppled August 20, 2018).
The statues of Robert E. Lee and "Stonewall" Jackson, in Charlottesville, Virginia
Spirit of the Confederacy, Houston, Texas.
John C.
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