Arkansas museum expands to better tell the story of the Sultana shipwreck • Arkansas Advocate
The country’s biggest maritime disaster happened just a few miles north of Memphis, Tennessee, when a steamboat caught fire at the end of the Civil War and more than half of its 2,300 passengers drowned in the Mississippi River. Now a museum dedicated to the disaster is being upgraded to better tell the story. About […]
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Confrontation between Liberty mayor, resident over Confederate cemetery marker
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Google-News-Wire
- June 13, 2023
- civil war
- Clay Countians for Inclusion
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- David Sallee
- Fairview Cemetery
- Gieselle Fest
- KMBC Investigates
- liberty
- Liberty city council
- Liberty MO mayor
- Liberty MO News
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- missouri
- Sons of Confederate Veterans
- Theresa Byrd
- United Confederate Veterans
The public comment session during Monday’s Liberty city council meeting ended with shouting between the mayor and a frequent public speaker at city meetings. The tension centered around a yearslong legal dispute over a Confederate statue, or grave marker as ancestors call it, in Fairview Cemetery.Clay Countians for Inclusion started pressing for the statue’s removal […]
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Glitter Magazine | November Brings New Opportunities for Five States to Outlaw Slavery | #elections | #alabama
vesperstock/ Shutterstock In November, voters in five states have the power to remove language that allows involuntary servitude and slavery as punishment for a crime or debt from their state constitutions.
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