The Lee Monument
BACKGROUND
In May of 1947, the Charleston Chapter 4 of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC), erected the Lee Memorial at the Charleston School of Math and Science (then Rivers High School). In July of 2021, the school district had the memorial removed. After waiting almost three years for the state to enforce the Heritage Act, the American Heritage Association recruited the UDC to be the Plaintiff in the lawsuit, with our financial support, against the Charleston County School District and School Board which was filed in July of 2024. We waited until November of 2024 to actually serve the lawsuit in hopes that the school board would remedy the situation. They did not.
In their reply to our lawsuit, the district/school board shockingly claimed that the Robert E. Lee Memorial was not protected by the Heritage Act.
In January of 2025, South Carolina Attorney General filed an amicus brief with the court in strong support of our lawsuit, calling the school district's removal of the Lee Memorial a "violation of state law".​
SMOKE OUT THE FAKE CONSERVATIVES!
Fake conservatives try to deflect and pivot to avoid accountability. One of the trick's some school board members will try to play is to claim that they cannot comment on legal matters. It is true that they cannot comment on specific legal conversations discussed in Executive Session, but they can comment on their views regarding monuments. Therefore, we want the five alleged conservative school board members to answer this simple question: "Do you oppose removing Charleston's historical monuments?" This is not a legal question about whether they broke the law by removing the Lee monument, so they CAN answer it.
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Which board member should we ask next? Send us an e-mail with your thoughts: americanheritageassoc@gmail.com
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YES! School board member Michele Leber (REAL CONSERVATIVE) supports Charleston's monuments!