The National Cathedral Will Replace Its Confederate-Themed Stained-Glass Windows
In 1953 , follow a 22 - year effort to rear a memorial to Confederate GeneralRobert E. LeeinWashington , D.C.’sNational Cathedral , the United Daughters of the Confederacy finish the job . The protection took the mannikin of a lot of four stain - glass windows that limn Lee , fellow GeneralStonewall Jackson , and other Confederate - themed imagery ( Confederate signal flag included ) . The artwork more or less flew under the radar until 2015 , when a blanched supremacistmurderednine mordant churchgoers in Charleston , South Carolina , incite National Cathedral clergy members to consider dispatch the windows ....