{"id":24826,"date":"2013-07-09T20:15:33","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T00:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=24826"},"modified":"2013-07-09T20:15:33","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T00:15:33","slug":"local-naccp-chapter-wants-portrait-of-robert-e-lee-removed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2013\/07\/local-naccp-chapter-wants-portrait-of-robert-e-lee-removed\/","title":{"rendered":"Local NACCP Chapter Wants<br> Portrait Of Robert E Lee Removed"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_24827\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24827\" style=\"width: 121px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-24827  \" title=\"Robert E Lee\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Robert-E-Lee-247x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"121\" height=\"147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Robert-E-Lee-247x300.png 247w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Robert-E-Lee.png 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 121px) 100vw, 121px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24827\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Confederate Army Gen. Robert E. Lee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Local NAACP Chapter President James Muwakkil has written a letter to the Lee County Commissioners to remove a painting of late Confederate Army Gen. Robert E. Lee from a wall where it hangs above public meetings.<\/p>\n<p>According to Lee County Staff the painting\u2019s history dates to Feb. 6, 1929, when commissioners requested the assistance of Virginia legislators in obtaining a portrait of Lee.<\/p>\n<p>Lee County was formed and named after the Confederate general in 1887, 32 years after the Civil War ended. Only the Florida Legislature can name counties.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->In a <a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/NAACP-Letter.pdf\">letter to commissioners<\/a>, Muwakkil stated that Lee fought for slavery; thus, his image stands contrary to contemporary beliefs in Lee County.<\/p>\n<p>All the commissioners have deferred any discussion until the commissioners come back from their summer break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Local NAACP Chapter President James Muwakkil has written a letter to the Lee County Commissioners to remove a painting of late Confederate Army Gen. Robert E. Lee from a&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24826"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}