In the context of Statue of Jefferson Davis (Austin, Texas), explore the Controversy and relocation of the History.

Beginning in 2015 and accelerating in 2017, a national controversy grew over the prominent positions of monuments and memorials to the Confederacy in many public spaces across the United States, and particularly in the American South. In this context, the statues of Confederate notables along the university's South Mall that Coppini had designed for the Littlefield Fountain attracted increased public criticism.
In March 2015, UT's student government passed a resolution calling for the removal of Jefferson Davis from the South Mall. That August, the university in fact removed the statues of both Davis and Woodrow Wilson from the Mall and placed them in storage, despite a lawsuit from the Texas Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, which failed to persuade the Texas Supreme Court to block the plan. Davis was later relocated to the university's Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, where it has been displayed since 2017.
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