A plaque dedicated to the Ku Klux Klan at West Point military academy has come under fire by a congressional panel dedicated to identifying and advising on the removal and renaming of Confederate-affiliated statues or buildings.
September 1, 2022, 12:30 PMA boat sails in the Hudson River in front of the United States Military Academy, West Point, Oct. 25, 2020 as seen from Garrison, N.Y.at the West Point military academy has come under fire by a congressional panel dedicated to identifying and advising on the removal and renaming of Confederate-affiliated statues or buildings under the Department of Defense.
The bronze mounted marker bearing the words "Ku Klux Klan" below a hooded figure appears as one piece of a triptych at the entrance of a building on campus. The marker falls outside the task ofHowever, the group said there are "clearly" ties in the KKK to the confederacy and advised the Department of Defense to consider creating a process to remove such memorials.
A congressional committee is calling for the removal of a Ku Klux Klan plaque at the West Point military academy in New York.The U.S. Military Academy's Public Affairs Office said in a statement to ABC News that the triptych "depicts the history of the United States." The middle panel, titled "One Nation, Under God, Indivisible," highlights a Ku Klux Klan member.
Officials from the academy said that the artist, Laura Gardin Fraser, "wanted to create art that depicted 'historical incidents or persons' that symbolized the principled events of that time, thereby documenting both tragedy and triumph in our nation's history.
The congressional panel was created amid a yearslong racial reckoning that prompted backlash against Confederate monuments. It sparked the removal of several prominent pieces,
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