Little Rock park markers for Dodd removed; mayor seeking ‘inclusive’ sites | The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

This historical marker on the University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law campus, shown Jan. 2, 1999, remembered David O. Dodd, who was executed Jan. 8, 1864. The monument was removed last month by the city.
(Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/Staton Breidenthal) — This historical marker on the University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law campus, shown Jan. 2, 1999, remembered David O. Dodd, who was executed Jan. 8, 1864. The monument was removed last month by the city. (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/Staton Breidenthal)

Little Rock has quietly removed two more Confederate-related historical markers from MacArthur Park, a granite monument and a bench commemorating David O. Dodd.

Dodd was a 17-year-old who was hanged as a spy by the Union Army in Little Rock in 1864 and has been called "the boy martyr of the Confederacy."

The two markers were removed for the same reasons Mayor Frank Scott Jr. had a bronze statue of a lone Confederate soldier removed from the park last month, said Stephanie Jackson, the mayor's spokeswoman.

Scott said in a statement June 18 that the monument to the Civil War militia unit from Pulaski County, known as "Memorial to Company A, Capitol Guards," did not contextualize the painful legacy of the soldiers' actions, nor the racial oppression of the Jim Crow era.

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