The North Carolina United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) and the Historic Preservation Action Committee (HPAC) will go head-to-head in court Monday morning over the Reidsville Confederate Monument.
HPAC filed lawsuits against the City of Reidsville, the UDC, the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) and the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources (NCDCR) in April.
The issue began one year ago this Wednesday, when Mark Anthony Vincent of Greensboro drove his company’s vehicle into the monument. The solider on top of the monument was knocked off its pedestal and into Vincent’s van. The solider shattered and his head became embedded in the vehicle. It was later removed and placed in the Reidsville Public Works building for safekeeping.
HPAC spokesperson Ira Tilley explained in April the rationale behind the lawsuits and said, “Unfortunately, you know, the city took the monument down without going through the proper channels, which would have been to contact NCDCR and NCDOT,” Tilley said. “We’re having to bring the NCDCR and DOT into this because they ruled (in a declaratory ruling filed Dec. 7) we have no standing.”
In the same interview in April, Tilley said the UDC was being sued because, “she is maintaining, she meaning Ms. (Aileen) Ezell (President of the state UDC). maintains for some reason she thinks, I know partly why, Mr. (Michael) Pearce (Reidsville’s city manager) told her that they (the UDC) own the monument, but she believes in her heart for some reason that they own all the monuments in North Carolina and they don’t,” Tilley said. “It’s public property, which is why we’re having to include them.”
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This whole affair was handled so disgracefully it was criminal. The UDC have proven themselves to be more anti-White and anti-Confederate than the negroes who oppose anything Confederate. Another lawsuit needs to be filed to FORCE the city of Reidsville to put another Confederate marker at the traffic circle where one stood for 101 years. It need not be another statue, but it has to be a dignified marker honoring the Confederate Soldiers of Rockingham County.
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