(News Channel 9) – A Middle Tennessee school is removing a statue depicting Confederate soldier Sam Davis from its grounds. Montgomery Bell Academy along Harding Pike in Nashville announced on Twitter Thursday that the statue will be removed within the week after concerns mounted.
“It was placed on the campus because of Sam Davis’s pre-Civil War connection to one of MBA’s predecessor schools and the attributes of loyalty and friendship associated with his life and story. We recognize the ways in which this story and Sam Davis’s association with the Confederacy have become increasingly troubling, particularly as perspectives on the past have shifted,” MBA tweeted.
MBA went on to stay that the school strives to be an inclusive community, “not one that either is or is perceived as racist or supportive of values that demean or marginalize others.” “In that spirit and with that conviction, we will remove the statue,” MBA tweeted.
Another statue of Sam Davis often referred to as “The Boy Hero of the Confederacy” who was a Confederate spy captured behind Union lines, tired and sentenced to death, sits at the Tennessee State Capitol. It’s on the corner of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and 7th Avenue. READ MORE
