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Via The Daily Texan
The Jefferson Davis statue on UT’s Main Mall will be relocated to the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, UT President Gregory Fenves announced Thursday.
Following a task force’s recommendations to relocate some or all of the statues, Fenves said the Davis statue would be better placed in an educational exhibit at the Briscoe Center.
“While every historical figure leaves a mixed legacy, I believe Jefferson Davis is in a separate category, and that it is not in the university’s best interest to continue commemorating him on our Main Mall,” Fenves said in an email to the University community. “Davis had few ties to Texas; he played a unique role in the history of the American South that is best explained and understood through an educational exhibit.”
The Woodrow Wilson statue, which is currently placed near the Davis statue, will be relocated elsewhere on campus to “maintain symmetry.” The other statues with Confederate ties on campus — Robert E. Lee, Albert Sidney Johnston and John H. Reagan — will remain on the mall.
University spokesman Gary Susswein said the Davis and Wilson statues could be removed from the mall as soon as this weekend.[…]
The statue of the Confederate president was vandalized three times this year. Following the third vandalization in June, Fenves formed a task force to assess the presence of Confederate statues on campus.
While the task force outlined options to also relocate some or all of the statues with ties to the Confederacy, Davis will be the only relocated Confederate statue, according to Fenves. The other statues in question had deep ties to Texas, Fenves said, and Lee’s legacy in particular “should not be reduced to the Civil War.”
In addition, Fenves said the University “will consider placing a plaque on the Main Mall to provide historical context for the remaining statues and for an inscription west of the Littlefield Fountain that pays tribute to the Confederacy and Southern patriotism.”