No resolution in sight for plaque on WV courthouse

By Joe Heim
November 23

... It has been three months since five black women in Jefferson County wrote to the five white county commissioners asking for the removal of the small plaque that honors Confederate soldiers at the entrance to the county courthouse in Charles Town, about 60 miles northwest of Washington ...

The women’s request to remove the plaque "with no fanfare" was brought up and voted down by the commission’s four Republicans and one Democrat at their next meeting ...

The plaque in question reads: .. In honor and memory of the Confederate soldiers of Jefferson County, who served in the War Between the States. Erected by the .. United Daughters of the Confederacy .. May 25, 1986.

Critics .. point out that West Virginia was part of the Union, and there is no plaque on the courthouse honoring Union soldiers. Nor is there acknowledgment that enslaved people were once sold on the courthouse steps ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/no-resolution-in-sight-for-confederate-plaque-on-west-virginia-courthouse/2017/11/23/9db14632-cfa2-11e7-9d3a-bcbe2af58c3a_story.html?utm_term=.bba1604b51f3