RESIST RACISM
REMOVE HATE
RECKON
REPAIR
To create a just and equitable community by reckoning with the truth of our racist past and its impact on the present.
OUR VISION
OUR MISSION
To remove symbols of white supremacy from public spaces in Jacksonville through community education, advocacy, alliances and collective action.
Communities nationwide are calling for the removal of memorials from public spaces that celebrate white supremacy. A society that believes it is based on democracy and equality should not display symbols representing the oppression of Black, Indigenous, and all People of Color. In Jacksonville, this movement includes the removal of images and names from parks, schools, bridges, and streets that honor Confederates, enslavers, and those who have been engaged in genocide.
The majority of Confederate monuments, erected in the South from 1880 to 1920 during the rise of Jim Crow laws, symbolize an era of Anti-Black legislation that denied voting rights and enforced segregation. In addition, the monument dedicated to the Women of the Southland was installed in 1915 during an era of racial terror lynching, myth-making about the Civil War, and the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan.
In 1954, there was a spike in monument installations as well as the naming of schools after Confederate generals. This followed the Supreme Court’s ruling against school segregation, which reflected a racist response to the Civil Rights movement’s push for equal rights. These memorials were meant to uphold the “lost cause” narrative. They were strategically placed to intimidate those striving for equity, making their removal crucial.
White supremacy—the false ideology that white people and their ideas, thoughts, beliefs, and actions are superior to People of Color.
It is ever present in our institutional and cultural assumptions. These assumptions assign value, morality, goodness, and humanity to the white group while casting people of color as immoral, inhuman and undeserving. It’s also a political and socio-economic system where white people enjoy advantages and rights that other groups do not collectively and individually have.
Join us for our next movie night at Cafe Resistance on Friday, April 11 at 6 pm!
Get Involved
Come to our monthly meetings held on the first Monday of each month at 5:30 pm at Yellow House (577 King St Jacksonville, FL).
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We’re at city council meetings every second and fourth Tuesday at City Hall
(117 West Duval St.) Meetings start at 5 pm.
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Watch this page for future protests, movie nights, educational forums, and rallies.
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For more information email takeemdownjaksonville@gmail.com or call Wells Todd at 904-477-8979.
