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In this Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2017, photo, Bishop O.C. Allen III stands outside his church, which is a few feet away from Confederate Avenue, in Atlanta. A roadway in Atlanta serves as a concrete reminder that Georgia once took up arms against the United States of America. It's called Confederate Avenue. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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This Monday, July 17, 2017, image shows the statue honoring Confederate President Jefferson Davis on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va. As cities across the United States are removing Confederate statues and other symbols, dispensing with what some see as offensive artifacts of a shameful past marked by racism and slavery, Richmond is taking a go-slow approach. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
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This Monday, July 17, 2017, image shows lightning streaking across the sky behind the statue honoring Confederate President Jefferson Davis on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va. As cities across the United States are removing Confederate statues and other symbols, dispensing with what some see as offensive artifacts of a shameful past marked by racism and slavery, Richmond is taking a go-slow approach. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
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This Wednesday, June 28, 2017, photo shows statue of Confederate president Jefferson Davis on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va. As cities across the United States are removing Confederate statues and other symbols, dispensing with what some see as offensive artifacts of a shameful past marked by racism and slavery, Richmond is taking a go-slow approach. (AP Photo/Steve Helber) **FILE**
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This Tuesday, May 16, 2017 photo shows a Confederate statue constructed in 1911 displayed at a downtown park in Orlando, Fla. The statue was removed on June 20, 2017 and will be relocated to a Confederate section of a nearby cemetery. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
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FILE - In this Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2016 file photo, a state flag of Mississippi is unfurled by Sons of Confederate Veterans and other groups on the grounds of the state Capitol in Jackson, Miss., in support of keeping the Confederate battle emblem on the state flag. A Mississippi city with a history of racial strife is the latest local government to stop flying the state flag, which features a Confederate emblem that critics see as racist. Three black officials in McComb, Miss., voted to remove the flag from city property. A white official voted to keep it. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
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An American and Confederate 2nd National Flag stand in the window of an empty room at the Nash Farm Battlefield Museum, a small Civil War museum closing in Hampton, Ga., Thursday, May 25, 2017. Against the backdrop of the removal of Confederate symbols from public spaces around the South, the closure of the small Civil War museum in Georgia has stirred up strong emotions. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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A sign which reads "LOVE" stands on the spot where a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis once stood in New Orleans on Saturday, May 20, 2017. The statue was one of four Confederate-related monuments removed after the City Council approved a proposal by Mayor Mitch Landrieu. (AP Photo/Kevin McGill)
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A sign which reads "LOVE" stands on the spot where a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis once stood in New Orleans on Saturday, May 20, 2017. The statue was one of four Confederate-related monuments removed after the City Council approved a proposal by Mayor Mitch Landrieu. (AP Photo/Kevin McGill)
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Lifelong New Orleanians Isaac Edward, left, and Merkel Marshall chat as a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee is prepared for removal Friday, May 19, 2017, from Lee Circle in New Orleans. The city council voted to remove the monument and three other Confederate and white supremacist monuments in Dec. 2015. An obelisk honoring the militia known as the White League was taken down in April; a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis was removed May 11; and a statue of Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard was taken down on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Scott Threlkeld)
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In this Aug. 25, 2016, file photo, a a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis sits the grounds of the Alabama Capitol in Montgomery, Ala. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves, File)
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In this Aug. 25, 2016, file photo, a a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis sits the grounds of the Alabama Capitol in Montgomery, Ala. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves, File)
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Demonstrators who supports keeping Confederate era monuments hold flags before the Jefferson Davis statue was taken down in New Orleans, Thursday, May 11, 2017. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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Demonstrators who supports keeping Confederate era monuments protest before the Jefferson Davis statue was taken down in New Orleans, Thursday, May 11, 2017. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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This photo taken Monday, April 17, 2017, shows the First White House of the Confederacy in Montgomery, Ala., where Confederate President Jefferson Davis lived in 1861. Thousands of schoolchildren visit the site each year, but critics chafe at its depiction of Davis as being beloved by the slaves he owned. (AP Photo/Anthony Izaguirre)
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This photo taken Monday, April 17, 2017, shows the First White House of the Confederacy in Montgomery, Ala., where Confederate President Jefferson Davis lived in 1861. Thousands of schoolchildren visit the site each year, but critics chafe at its depiction of Davis as being beloved by the slaves he owned. (AP Photo/Anthony Izaguirre)
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FILE - Flags adorn the grave of Confederate Lt. George Dixon, the commander of the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley, in Charleston, S.C., in this Feb. 17, 2012, file photo. Monday, Feb. 17, 2014, is the 150th anniversary of the attack in which the Hunley sank the Union blockade ship Housatonic off Charleston, S.C., during the Civil War, becoming the first submarine in history to sink an enemy warship. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith, File)
