Group plans protest against segregated military display

[struggle4progress]

Associated Press

BUTLER, Ga. - ... a group of activists in central Georgia plans to protest against a courthouse display that lists local veterans - because it divides the 800 names in two columns marked in large type "Whites" and "Colored."

The display has been in the lobby of the Taylor County courthouse since 1944, honoring servicemembers who fought in World War II. The two lists are mounted side by side behind glass in two large frames ...

In January, the Taylor County Commission unanimously decided to create an "integrated" list, with all the names together as well as additional names that weren't in the display designed before the war ended.

But the commission also decided to leave the "Whites" and "Colored" lists up in the lobby of the building ...

http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/news/local/15989506.htm

[NOLADEM]

1. Leave it...It serves a valuable purpose as is....forgotten history is bound to repeat itself

[xchrom]

2. i agree -- we have to look at our history.