A Houston activist is campaigning to have Galveston officials take down a statue in front of the local courthouse that honors Confederate soldiers.
Isaac Fanuiel told the Galveston County Daily News that the monument is inappropriate on an island where federal troops announced the freeing of slaves at the end of the Civil War -- a day commemorated as Juneteenth.
Confederate symbols have received new scrutiny in Texas and across the South after the South Carolina church shooting last month that left nine black people dead. A white man linked to supremacist groups is charged with murder in their deaths.
The Galveston statue is named "Dignified Resignation" and features a man holding a Confederate flag and a broken sword. A scroll at his feet reads, "Glory to the Defeated."
