Following a violent white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, last August over the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee in a public park, cities around the country began removing and relocating their own Confederate statues, including in nearby Lexington. Just five days after Charlottesville, the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Council voted unanimously to move two Confederate statues from prominent places in the downtown area.
But in Louisville, the process to address monuments linked to the Confederacy has been much slower.