When police loaded it into a truck he recognized that it was an ornamental chair. “The first thing I thought - grave robbers,” he said. Resident Donald Oliver had gotten up early to walk his dogs and saw the commotion as police gathered. In this case, police found the chair April 9 near a railroad overpass in New Orleans. The theft comes as Confederate statues and other artifacts of that era are being removed, by vote or by crowd, around the country as part of a reckoning with the country's slave-owning history. “I hope there is some remnant left of civilization left in this country,' she said. Pat Godwin, who heads the UDC's Selma Chapter, is adamant that whoever stole the chair are not “folk heroes.” Then, miles away in New Orleans, the chair was found and three people arrested. A final email said that chair was a fake and the real chair was being returned unscathed. The next email included photos of someone wearing military garb posing on a chair that looked like the missing one with a hole in the seat resembling a potty. We decided, in the spirit of such ignominious traditions, to kidnap a chair instead,' read one of the group's notes. And then we had to fight a war to end the practice. “America’s original sin is that people were kidnapped from their homes and forced to build one of the most prosperous nations in the world, without being allowed to participate in it. The group portrayed the chair's theft as a way to highlight America's slave-owning past. If they did not, the chair would be turned into a toilet.

Someone sent an email signed “White Lies Matter” to news outlets claiming responsibility and saying the chair would be returned only if the UDC agreed to display a banner at their Virginia headquarters bearing a quote from a Black Liberation Army activist. The Confederate group put an ad in the local paper seeking the chair’s return. It was UDC chapters across the country that helped erect Confederate memorials in the wake of the Civil War and often fight to keep them where they are. The chair is one of several monuments that sit in the circle owned and maintained by the United Daughters of the Confederacy the group also tends to the surrounding graves of unknown Confederate soldiers. “I want to see what kind of chair was worth a half-million dollars,” said Robert Moore, who came to the cemetery to look at the site and walk his dogs. That figure alone got people talking in Selma. On March 20, the Selma chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy reported to police that the carved limestone monument shaped like a chair and honoring Confederate President Jefferson Davis was gone. Marchers demonstrating for voting rights were brutally beaten by authorities as they tried to cross Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965, in an event known as Bloody Sunday.

It all started at the nearly 200-year-old Live Oak Cemetery in the city known for its civil rights history.

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