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Beginning in 2015 and accelerating in 2017, a national controversy grew over the prominent positions of monuments and memorials to the Confederacy in many public spaces across the United States, and particularly in the American South. In this context, the statues of Confederate notables along the
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and five other Texan and Confederate notables selected by Littlefield, which he intended to display around the fountain. However, as construction on the memorial proceeded in the early 1930s, campus architect
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to design the monument, which was to include a number of statues of notable figures from the history of Texas and the American South. The memorial was ultimately redesigned as the
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decided to instead install the six statues along the university's South Mall, where they were placed in 1933 as the construction of the fountain complex was completed.
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donated funds to pay for the construction of a "Memorial Gateway" at the south entrance to the university's campus that would honor the
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university's South Mall that Coppini had designed for the Littlefield Fountain attracted increased public criticism.
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and instead dedicated to the university's students and alumni who had died in the Great War (now known as
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from the South Mall. That August, the university in fact removed the statues of both Davis and
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from the Mall and placed them in storage, despite a lawsuit from the Texas Division of the
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In March 2015, UT's student government passed a resolution calling for the removal of
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As part of the memorial project, in the 1920s Coppini sculpted bronze statues of
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The statue in the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, 2018
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Pompeo Coppini
Jefferson Davis
Dolph Briscoe Center for American History
Austin, Texas
University of Texas at Austin
American-Confederate politician of the same name
Pompeo Coppini
George W. Littlefield
Littlefield Fountain
University of Texas at Austin
Dolph Briscoe Center for American History
Austin, Texas
Littlefield Fountain
George W. Littlefield
Confederate
Civil War
San Antonio
Pompeo Coppini
Littlefield Fountain
World War I
Jefferson Davis
Paul Cret
Removal of Confederate monuments and memorials
Woodrow Wilson
Sons of Confederate Veterans
Texas Supreme Court
Dolph Briscoe Center for American History
Texas portal
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