Frosh Calls For Removal Of Talbot Boys Confederate Monument In Easton

EASTON, Md. (WJZ) — Attorney General Brian Frosh called for the removal of the “Talbot Boys” statue, a Confederate memorial extracurricular the Talbot County Courthouse successful Easton connected Wednesday.

In a connection calling for the statue’s removal, Frosh noted the statue was erected decades aft the Civil War ended, during the epoch of Jim Crow, and that galore akin monuments to the Confederacy adjacent authorities buildings and metropolis centers to “reinforce the country’s radical hierarchy and its rejection of the gains made during Reconstruction.”

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The “Talbot Boys” statue “serves arsenic a achy reminder not conscionable of the deadly acts galore committed to supporting slavery and the degradation of Blacks,” helium added. “Worse, it suggests that these ideals are inactive endorsed wrong our astir captious institutions. It is not simply a vestige of slavery and achromatic supremacy from agelong ago, but a motion of enduring absorption to radical equality.”

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In May, the NAACP and ACLU sued the region to question the court-ordered removal of the monument.

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In August 2020, the Talbot County Council voted 3-2 to support the memorial connected the courthouse lawn.

CBS Baltimore Staff