GRENADA, Miss. (AP) — A Confederate monument that had been standing on the courthouse square in Grenada, Mississippi since 1910 has been taken down. The monument, which had been covered in tarps for the past four years, was a source of division within the community regarding how to appropriately commemorate the past.
The decision to relocate the monument to other public land was made by Grenada's first Black mayor in two decades. A concrete slab has already been poured behind a fire station about 3.5 miles away from the square.
