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UDC Files New Motion To Block Move Of Winston-Salem Confederate Monument

PAUL GARBER/WFDD

The group behind Winston-Salem's Confederate monument is once again asking a local court to block the city's efforts to move it from its prominent downtown location.

The statue's presence has sparked vandalism, protests and counter-protests. But Winston-Salem's Confederate monument remains in the same spot that it's been in since 1905, despite a deadline from city officials to move it by the end of January.

The United Daughters of the Confederacy have gone to Forsyth County superior court to block the move once. A judge denied their request.

This week, the group filed a new motion. They say the city is creating a manufactured crisis.

The Daughters of the Confederacy wants the courts, not the city, to decide the fate of the monument.

“The Mayor and the City of Winston-Salem do not have any legal standing or right to remove or alter the statue in any way as this is a state, county and UDC issue,” the group said in a release Thursday.

City officials say they're going ahead with their relocation plans but aren't saying when that will happen.

Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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