We are Committed to the Removal of Confederate Monuments from Public Spaces

04/05/2025

11/09/2021

At the Jacksonville City Council meeting tonight that will take up bill to relocate a Confederate Monument from a public park. The Council has its first Black president in years. check us out at Https://TakeItDown.Org

10/23/2021

We spend millions in taxpayer dollars every year on tributes to white supremacy. It must stop.

10/22/2021

https://takeitdownnow.org/f/counties-with-more-confederate-monuments-also-had-more-lynchings?fbclid=IwAR1Deozl2xVBr6OnGh7v9boo_j4oCQw1sRAWmgvMLbvnAPtoVx70q3r5qaY

It was 1898, and John Henry James was on a train headed toward certain death. The Black ice cream vendor had been falsely accused of ra**ng a White woman, arrested and taken to a neighboring town to avoid a lynch mob. Bu...

07/23/2021

https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/courts/2021/07/22/jacksonville-lawsuit-targets-spending-confederate-memorials-upkeep/8053084002/

If the suit is successful, "every jurisdiction in the country will have to pay attention to it," said Earl M. Johnson Jr., who sued on his own behalf.

07/23/2021

Founder of TakeItDownNow.Org Sues in Federal Court to Defund Confederate Monuments as Unconstitutional.

https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/courts/2021/07/22/jacksonville-lawsuit-targets-spending-confederate-memorials-upkeep/8053084002/

If the suit is successful, "every jurisdiction in the country will have to pay attention to it," said Earl M. Johnson Jr., who sued on his own behalf.