This Is Us - Gregg County

“In the days and months leading up to the special election to vote on the literacy test proposal, campaign events throughout the state encouraged white citizens to cast their votes in favor of the policy that would achieve Black disenfranchisement. On the eve of the election, judicial candidate and former Confederate officer William A. Guthrie proclaimed to a crowd of over 12,000:

“The people of the east and west are coming together. The amendment will pass and the negro curbed in every part of the state. Good government will be restored everywhere. Then our ladies can walk the streets of our towns in safety, day or night. White women will not be afraid to go about alone in the country. We will teach the colored race that our people must be respected. We have restrained and conquered other races. They obeyed our demands or were exterminated with the sword. We are at a crisis. Let us rise to the occasion. Come together!””

This is the mindset hailed as heroic by the monument that stands on our courthouse lawn. Please contact your county commissioner today and ask them to .

The time is now.

Aug. 2, 1900 | North Carolina Votes to Disenfranchise Black Residents Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

"The city of Pulaski has long been known as the birthplace of the Ku Klux Klan, but visitors heading into town will now see a life-sized, bronze monument honoring a very different history.

Ahead of the Juneteenth holiday, city leaders on Saturday unveiled “Resurrection of Valor,” a statue memorializing thousands of the region’s United States Colored Troops who fought for the U.S. Army in the Civil War.

For the small town of about 8,000 near the Alabama border, the monument marks a milestone as Pulaski works to change its image and remember its forgotten Black history."

Removing the monument from the Gregg County courthouse would not only be considered a milestone in the history of East Texas, but as a message to the world that what it symbolizes, does not represent Longview.

In the birthplace of the K*K, she spent $82,000 to erect statue of Black Civil War soldier Pulaski leaders on Saturday unveiled “Resurrection of Valor,” a statue memorializing the region’s US Colored Troops who fought in the Civil War.