(CNN) Another Confederate monument is close to being relocated, this time it's in Mississippi.

The Mississippi Department of Archives and History approved a plan to relocate a Confederate monument on the University of Mississippi's campus Friday, according to a statement from university Chancellor Glenn F. Boyce.

The Confederate soldier monument at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi.

The next step will be the Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning , which oversees the state's public universities, deciding to approve the relocation plan or not, Boyce said.

The monument -- dedicated in 1906 -- stands at a prominent location on campus and portrays the figure of an unarmed Confederate infantryman, according to Confederate Monument Relocation Project documents from the school.

In September 1962, the statue served as a rallying point where a mob gathered to prevent the admission of the university's first African American student, the school said in 2016 while discussing a plaque to provide historical context.