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Confederate Monuments and State Constitutions - State Court Report

'” Another wave of monument building and Confederate flag flying swept the South during the Civil Rights movement kicked off in 1954 with Brown ...

It's Hard to Get Rid of a Confederate Memorial in New York City

was close to memorializing its version of the Confederacy on the National Mall with the infamous “mammy monument,” a memorial to what the group ...

New Confederate monuments are still being built across the country

"When we saw the Union monument go up, it seemed only fitting that we also have one," said Al Massey, commander of the local group of the Sons ...

The Stubborn Persistence of Confederate Monuments - The Atlantic

For all the high-profile removals, there remains a stunning number of Confederate Civil War monuments, memorials, and namesakes in public spaces ...

The Costs of the Confederacy - Smithsonian Magazine

We have found that, over the past ten years, taxpayers have directed at least $40 million to Confederate monuments—statues, homes, parks, museums, libraries and ...

Opinion: Don't Take Down Confederate Monuments. Here's Why.

Keep the statues where they are so that people can explain history to their kids. Keep them so that we can have a constructive dialogue at ...

Racism and Confederate Monument Construction: Temporal ...

I define Confederate monuments as stand-alone structures that make direct reference to the Confederacy, namely, the use of the word “Confederate ...

Veterans Affairs Confederate Monuments Stay as Others Topple

The initial wave of Confederate memorials in the United States appeared immediately after the war and typically were specifically to honor the ...

United Daughters of the Confederacy Monument

In addition building memorials, the UDC focused their efforts on caring for Confederate veterans and widows, preserving and documenting the ...

Memorializing the Civil War Around America | DocsTeach

The Confederate Soldier Memorial in Columbus, Ohio, is a Confederacy monument to Southern soldiers in a northern Union state. The Union/Confederate Veteran's ...

General Information - Researching Confederate Monuments in ...

By the early twentieth century, memorials to the Southern dead and surviving veterans were regional icons, and men of the Confederate army ranked among ...

Daughters of Confederacy Put Up Statues, Indoctrinated ...

The Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument in Linn Park was defaced by protesters and has been removed. (Source: Solomon Crenshaw Jr.).

Confederate monuments: What the men honored by statues did and ...

Like other symbols of the Confederacy, such memorials have been defended for generations as pieces of Southern heritage, or simply ...

US Confederate monuments: What is the debate about? - Al Jazeera

A monument to fallen Confederate soldiers in downtown Gainesville was brought down on August 14, and carried away by workers hired by the United ...

Most Confederate Monuments Weren't Built Until the Rise of Jim Crow

When were Confederate monuments erected? Confederate statues were built during Jim Crow and the civil rights movement, symbolizing a ...

Correcting History: Confederate Monuments, Rituals and the Lost ...

And one of the major ones is at Arlington National Cemetery, this Confederate monument in Arlington. It was being given by the United Daughters of the ...

Confederate Monuments: Southern Heritage or Southern Art?

Just as the ideology of the Confederate monument does not represent all Southerners, its form fails to reflect the folk visual tradition that is one of the ...

United Daughters of the Confederacy | Historical – Educational ...

To others, they simply represent a memorial to our forefathers who fought bravely during four years of war. These memorial statues and markers have been a part ...

What can communities do with Confederate monuments? Here are 3 ...

Many historians also agree that Confederate monuments shouldn't be destroyed, since they can impart important lessons about the ugliness of the ...

For 150 years, Black journalists have known what Confederate ...

At the turn of the 20th century, Southern sympathizers started building monuments to Confederate leaders. Black newspaper editors saw these ...