IHL suspends vote on moving Confederate monument at Ole Miss

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Posted: Jan 16, 2020 / 09:33 AM CST / Updated: Jan 16, 2020 / 01:44 PM CST

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – The Institutions of Higher Learning Board of Trustees met in Jackson on Thursday.

According to the Daily Mississippian, the board voted to suspend voting on the request to relocate the Confederate monument on the campus of the University of Mississippi in Oxford.

BREAKING: The Institutions of Higher Learning Board of Trustees voted to suspend voting on the request to relocate the Confederate monument to the campus cemetery, pending further review.
— The Daily Mississippian (@thedm_news) January 16, 2020

In December 2019, the Mississippi Department of Archives and History voted to approve moving the monument to the campus cemetery.

The IHL said the vote is pending further review.

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