Confederate monument anniversary reveals a work in progress
Van Turner (center) director and president of Memphis Greenspace, the nonprofit that bought two Downtown parks and removed the Confederate statues, talks to the media in Health Sciences Park on Dec. 20, 2018, the one-year anniversary of the monuments' removal. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)
One year to the day that Confederate monuments were removed from two city parks, the anniversary revealed the controversy still has some unexpected life left in it among those pursuing the removal of the monuments by different methods.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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