Qualla: Fame (Confederate Monument) https://qualla.com/fame-confederate-monument en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:06 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/q/f/fame-confederate-monument-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Fame (Confederate Monument) https://qualla.com/fame-confederate-monument Fame (Confederate Monument): Introduction https://qualla.com/fame-confederate-monument/ Photo credit Kharris0317, CC BY-SA 4.0. For 111 years, a bronze angel with outstretched wings stood on a pink granite pedestal in the median of West Innes Street in downtown Salisbury, North Carolina. She held a dying Confederate soldier in one arm and a laurel wreath in the other. The statue's original French name was 'Gloria Victis,' meaning 'glory to the defeated.' Salisbury called it 'Fame.' On July 6, 2020, in the months following the murder of George Floyd, the statue was lifted off its pedestal and trucked away. It was the end of a long argument that had been running, in one form or another, since the monument was dedicated.

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/q/f/fame-confederate-monument-wp/dnqf-fame-confederate-monument-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Fame (Confederate Monument): Glory to the Defeated https://qualla.com/fame-confederate-monument/ Photo credit AlexiusHoratius, CC BY-SA 3.0. The statue itself was not made for Salisbury. The 'Gloria Victis' grouping was sculpted by Frederick Ruckstull, a French-born sculptor working in New York, who was deeply inspired by an 1874 French original of the same name by Antonin Mercié. Ruckstull cast two nearly-identical v...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/q/f/fame-confederate-monument-wp/dnqf-fame-confederate-monument-glory-to-the-defeated.mp3 0:06 2 full Fame (Confederate Monument): What Monuments Like This Were For https://qualla.com/fame-confederate-monument/ Photo credit AlexiusHoratius, CC BY-SA 3.0. Fame was one of dozens of Confederate monuments raised across the South in the first decades of the twentieth century, a wave of memorialization that historians have shown was tied directly to the consolidation of legal segregation. The United Daughters of the Confederacy, organi...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/q/f/fame-confederate-monument-wp/dnqf-fame-confederate-monument-what-monuments-like-this-were-for.mp3 0:06 3 full Fame (Confederate Monument): A Century of Tension https://qualla.com/fame-confederate-monument/ Photo credit AlexiusHoratius, CC BY-SA 3.0. Safety concerns about the West Innes location had been raised as early as 1948, 1959, and 1964, when traffic patterns changed and the statue stood awkwardly in a busy median. The cultural arguments came later. On August 18, 2018, days after Ku Klux Klan flyers were distributed in...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/q/f/fame-confederate-monument-wp/dnqf-fame-confederate-monument-a-century-of-tension.mp3 0:06 4 full Fame (Confederate Monument): Summer 2020 https://qualla.com/fame-confederate-monument/ Photo credit AlexiusHoratius, CC BY-SA 3.0. By June 2020 a petition to remove the statue carried more than seven thousand signatures. The Salisbury City Council voted unanimously on June 16 to relocate the monument, citing public safety. Five days later the United Daughters of the Confederacy signed an agreement allowing t...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/q/f/fame-confederate-monument-wp/dnqf-fame-confederate-monument-summer-2020.mp3 0:06 5 full Fame (Confederate Monument): What Remains https://qualla.com/fame-confederate-monument/ Photo credit AlexiusHoratius, CC BY-SA 3.0. The median where Fame stood for 111 years is now an empty stretch of grass on West Innes Street, with West Council and South Church Streets nearby. Salisbury continues to debate what, if anything, should replace it. The Fame Preservation Group, which became a 501(c)(3) nonprofit ...

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