Come to Easton June 19 for a march and rally sponsored by the Move the Monument Coalition to demand that the Talbot County Council move the Confederate Monument from the Talbot County Courthouse lawn.
The march will begin at 11 a.m. near Easton Marketplace shopping center, 219 Marlboro Ave., Easton, and end with a rally at noon on the courthouse lawn. Speakers will include Sheree Sample-Hughes, speaker pro tempore of the Maryland House of Delegates; Easton Town Council President Megan Cook; Annapolis-based civil rights activist Carl Snowden; rapper and motivational speaker Devon Beck; the Rev. Elmer Davis, district superintendent of the Easton District of the United Methodist Church, and The Very Rev. Gregory Powell, dean of Trinity Cathedral Easton.
The march and rally is a culmination of the work the coalition has done with the support of hundreds of community members to demand the removal of
The Talbot Boys statue, the last Confederate monument on public property in Maryland. We want to send the message that its current place on the courthouse lawn, a place of justice and equality, does not represent the sentiments of the majority of Talbot County residents.
Our nonpartisan coalition, with about 500 members, represents a wide swath of Talbot County, young and old, black and white, descendants of those named on the monument and relative newcomers. Veterans, historians, lawyers and pastors have spoken at our rallies.
We will encourage social distancing and will distribute masks and hand sanitizer.
For more information, contact: [email protected] Also, visit our Facebook page at Move the Confederate Talbot Boys Monument, or go to our website: https://www.movethemonumenttc.org
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