For example, in May, Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam signed a bill that says local municipalities have to seek permission from the state's Historical Commission, whose members include individuals from a pro-Confederate group, before removing memorials.
Each county in which a lynching took place will be invited to remove its memorial column and display it in its own community.
That feeling led him to write the letter to Trinity Church requesting it remove the memorial, and several residents of his building have either signed it or written their own.
Yet the countries' leaders have strong enough nationalist credentials to fend off accusations of treachery.Perhaps to distract attention, Mr Dacic recently sent armed police to remove a memorial to anti-Serbian Albanian guerrillas erected before the town hall in Presevo, a mainly Albanian city inside Serbia.
That denial was central to the thinking of the Alabama state lawmakers who, on the same day that New Orleans removed the last of the four statues, passed the Alabama Memorial Preservation Act, making it illegal to remove any memorial that has stood on state ground for more than forty years.
He plans to call the victims' families before officials decide to remove the memorial. .
"Given these feelings and the tragedy in Charlottesville, I felt compelled to remove this memorial from public property".
South Korea, in turn, pledged to "irreversibly" drop its demand for reparation, end all criticism of Japan on the issue, and remove a memorial constructed by Korean "comfort women" survivors in 2011 in front of Japan's embassy in Seoul.
Republican Sheri Few, a candidate for an open South Carolina House seat, chastises politicians for removing Confederate memorials in her ad.
She welcomed Ms. Llodra's decision to remove the public memorials.
