Lawmaker: Confederate plaque removed from Texas Capitol

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Updated 6:45 pm CST, Sunday, January 13, 2019

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A lawmaker says a Confederate plaque in the Texas Capitol that rejects slavery as the underlying cause of the Civil War has been removed.

State Rep. Eric Johnson on Sunday tweeted a photo of the blank wall where the plaque was once displayed.

Johnson, a Dallas Democrat, has long pushed the state to remove the plaque, which was made by the Children of the Confederacy and was first hung in the Capitol in 1959.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and other state leaders agreed to remove the plaque Friday after years of resistance by top Republicans.

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/texas/article/Lawmaker-Confederate-plaque-removed-from-Texas-13530492.php

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[joshdawg]

1. Really surprised

that abbott agreed to this removal.

[rpannier]

2. First hung in 1959

I wonder why they did that then?