Mayor Lenny Curry's top administrator told City Council over the weekend he will file legislation for moving the Confederate monument out of Springfield Park at an estimated cost of about $1.3 million.
Curry had said in June 2020, hours after the overnight removal of a Confederate soldier statue from what is now called James Weldon Johnson Park,that "others in this city will be removed as well."
"We hear your voices," he said at a rally outside City Hall. "We have heard your voices.”
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