The protests that followed the death of the American citizen George Floyd were not limited to the demonstrations, chants and slogans that pervaded the United States and spread to separate regions of the world, but were accompanied by campaigns targeting statues of figures in American and European history that the protesters considered to have a major role in perpetuating racism, slavery and the slave trade.
Among the most prominent statues that were destroyed by demonstrators in the United States are the statue of the discoverer Christopher Columbus and the President of the Confederate States, Jefferson Davis, amid increasing pressure on the authorities to remove statues associated with the era of slavery and colonialism, which re-debate the statues related to American history.