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UT removes Jefferson Davis statue - Leaves PLAGIARIST Martin Lyin' King.

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AUSTIN - The University of Texas at Austin on Sunday morning 
removed a statue of Jefferson Davis from its main mall, over the 
objections and amid ongoing legal action by Confederate groups.

Students and others cheered as larger-than-life sized bronze 
statue came down, just as the campus' historic clock tower stuck 
10:15 a.m. Some even sang a few bars from fictitious band 
Steam's "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye."

The move was made just days after a state District Judge Sarah 
Crump shot down an attempt by the Sons of Confederate Veterans 
to block the statues' removal. The removal took about an hour 
and a half; it will be refurbished and relocated to the Dolph 
Briscoe Center for American History, also on UT's campus.

Gregory Vincent, UT's Vice President for Diversity and 
Community, called the moment "iconic."

"It really shows the power of student leadership," said Vincent, 
who chaired a student-faculty task force that suggested either 
removing or altering the statue. It, as well as several other 
statues representing Confederate leaders, had been vandalized 
several times over the years by individuals viewed it as a 
representation of the South's heritage of slavery and racism.

Confederate groups will continue to fight the change, said their 
attorney Kirk Lyons, who said the Sons of Confederate Veterans 
will seek for Davis' statue to be put back or put in a more 
prominent place on campus than at the Briscoe Center.

Lyons called the removal an "ISIS-style cleansing of history and 
tradition from a so-called institution of higher learning," and 
said as long as he is "above the ground" he and the SCV Texas 
chapter will seek to have the statue put back in its original 
place.

The removal cost about $15,000. Austin-based company Vault Fine 
Art Services was contracted to undertake the removal. A company 
has not chosen, nor has a cost estimate been issued, for the 
refurbishment.

A statue of former President Woodrow Wilson will also be removed 
to maintain symmetry on the mall. The campus has not yet decided 
where to relocate the Wilson statue. Several other statues, 
including those of Confederate Generals Robert E. Lee and Albert 
Sydney Johnson, Confederate Postmaster General John Reagan and 
James Hogg, the first native Texan to be elected governor, whose 
father was a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army 
will remain on the mall.

http://www.chron.com/local/education/campus-
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