Bronze statue of John Lewis replaces more than 100-year-old Confederate monument

The Associated Press

DECATUR, Ga. (AP) — A large bronze statue of the late civil rights icon leader and Georgia congressman John Lewis was installed at the very spot where a contentious monument to the confederacy stood for more than 110 years in the town square before it was dismantled in 2020. Work crews on Friday installed the statue by internationally acclaimed sculptor Basil Watson. The former Confederate monument was brought down in 2020 after it was vandalized and marked by graffiti in the wake of the death of George Floyd.