Board members governing the country’s largest Confederate monument voted Tuesday to relocate the site’s Confederate flags and open a museum exhibit detailing the Ku Klux Klan’s involvement in the creation of the site, which displays a mountainside carving of Confederate officials.
The Stone Mountain Memorial Association, which oversees Georgia’s Stone Mountain Park near Atlanta, will move the flags out of a highly trafficked walking trail after criticism over the site’s memorialization of the Confederacy.
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