UT Moving Statue Of Jefferson Davis

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AUSTIN (AP) - The president of the University of Texas has ordered removing a statue of Jefferson Davis from the center of campus, but statues of other Confederate figures will stay.

The Davis statue has been targeted by vandals and had come under increasing criticism. State governments and businesses around the country have removed Confederate symbols following the recent mass shooting of black church members in Charleston, South Carolina.

President Greg Fenves announced Thursday that Davis will be moved to the school's Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.

That was one of the options presented by a school task force this week. Statues of Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Albert Sidney Johnston, and Confederate Postmaster General John H. Reagan, will stay near the university's central clock tower.

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