The US House of Representatives has voted to remove all the Confederate statues from public display in the US Capitol.

Virginia's highest court has ruled that the city of Charlottesville can take down two statues of Confederate generals, including one of Robert E. Lee that became the focus of a violent white nationalist rally in 2017.

A top US general has censured American Confederate leaders as traitors and withdrawn his support for naming military bases and statues after those who fought in the Civil War era, a viewpoint that puts him on a collision course with US President Donald Trump.

A predominantly black group of heavily armed protesters marched through Stone Mountain Park near Atlanta, calling for removal of the giant Confederate monument there.

Dozens gathered and cheered on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia on Thursday when the statue of Confederate Naval officer Matthew Maury was removed along with two statues of cannons.

Political commentator Alexander Azadgan believes that confederate monuments in the US should be removed through the legal process not vandalism.

Protesters have toppled a statue of a Confederate general in Washington DC, and set it on fire.