The former site of a Confederate memorial in Georgia now holds a statue of the late American civil rights leader and former congressman John Lewis.

In Decatur, Georgia, a statue of former congressman John Lewis replaced a Confederate obelisk that was removed in 2020.

The 16-foot-tall sculpture of the civil rights icon will be officially unveiled later this week. It replaces a 30-foot-tall obelisk erected by the Daughters of the Confederacy in 1908.

John Lewis' statue was unveiled Saturday outside Atlanta, replacing a Confederate monument that had stood for over a century.

A statue honoring the late civil rights hero and US Congressman John Lewis has replaced a Confederate monument in Georgia. On Saturday (August 24), the John Lewis Memorial was unveiled in Decatur ...

In DeKalb County where the Confederate monument stood for more than a century, protesters have invoked “good trouble” in calling for the swift removal of the obelisk.

A statue honoring civil rights hero and US Congressman John Lewis was unveiled Saturday outside of Atlanta, replacing a Confederate monument that had stood there for more than a century.

A large bronze statue of the late civil rights icon and congressman was installed on Friday at the Georgia County Courthouse and replaced a Confederate statue that had been there for over a century.

For more than a century, a Confederate obelisk stood in front of the DeKalb County, Ga., courthouse. On Saturday, the county dedicated a statue of Lewis, a local member of Congress and civil ...

The 12-foot-tall bronze statue of the civil rights leader was commissioned after Mr. Lewis died in 2020. It stands where a Confederate memorial was erected in 1908.