Confederacy

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• SOURCE: NBC News
  9/13/2021
  

  Tuskegee, Alabama Confederate Memorial at Center of Lawsuit in Majority-Black City

  The presence of the statue in the city, home of the historic Tuskegee University and training place of the famed World War II aviation heroes, has angered locals for decades. 

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  8/10/2021
  

  Greenwood, Mississippi Asks What Comes After Confederate Monuments

  As political pressure brings down Confederate statues, the question of what replaces them becomes more urgent but remains unanswered. 

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• 8/1/2021
  

  Charlottesville's Lee Statue Belongs in a Museum

  by John Troast

  "Charlottesville’s recently removed statue of Robert E. Lee is not a statue of a man, it is a statue of a myth," and the history of that dangerous myth needs to be preserved.

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• SOURCE: Indyweek
  7/28/2021
  

  Where They Stood: A Photojournalist Documents the Nation's Fallen Confederate Monuments

  "Last fall, I began to document the Confederate monuments that have been taken down since George Floyd’s death. In April, I started a five-week, 7,300-mile road trip throughout the South to continue this work."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/28/2021
  

  Charles Blow: ‘The Lost Cause’ Is Back

  by Charles M. Blow

  "Republicans are on a political crusade to protect lore and lies. They know that many Americans, many of them their voters, will take a lie over guilt and atonement, every day of the week."

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• SOURCE: Charlotte News & Observer
  7/12/2021
  

  Far-Right Activists Protest with Confederate Flags at UNC’s Unsung Founders Memorial

  Two white supremacists picketed the University of North Carolina's memorial to the free and enslaved Black workers who built the university, the latest incident of racial tension on the campus. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/9/2021
  

  Charlottesville Removes Robert E. Lee Statue at Center of White Nationalist Rally

  “I’m really happy it’s a boring morning, and boring means that no bad things happened,” says UVA historian John Edwin Mason.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  7/4/2021
  

  Manual Advises how to Stop Removal of Confederate Statues: Don’t Mention Race

  "The document is attributed to the highest level of SCV leadership at that time and buttresses its defense of monuments with a detailed account of the civil war which falsely denies the centrality of slavery in the conflict."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  6/29/2021
  

  House Will Vote on Bill to Remove Confederate Statues from Capitol

  The bill would remove from public view monuments to figures associated with the Confederacy or the causes of slavery and white supremacy that motivated it, including a bust of Chief Justice Roger Taney, author of the notorious Dred Scott decision. 

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• SOURCE: MSNBC
  6/12/2021
  

  North Carolina Plantation's Juneteenth Event Underscores South's Historical Whitewashing

  by Keisha N. Blain

  "The plan to center a Juneteenth event around so-called “displaced white refugees” is deeply racist. But it’s also part of a much larger public effort to distort historical narratives and, in this case, miseducate the public about slavery in the United States."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/13/2021
  

  Plantation Planned Juneteenth Event that would Tell the Stories of Displaced ‘White Refugees’

  Was the planned event unduly sympathetic to slave owners, or a reflection of the historical intertwining of the lives of Black and White southerners? 

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• SOURCE: Buzzfeed
  6/7/2021
  

  I Visited A Former Plantation To Understand Why People Get Married There. All I Saw Was Pain

  by Clint Smith

  The popularity of celebrating weddings at the sites of enslavement and forced labor illustrates the huge gaps in White America's understanding of history. 

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  6/9/2021
  

  Stephen M. Monroe on "Heritage and Hate" in Southern University Traditions

  "Yes, it is painful and discomforting to see and hear racism. But I am a white scholar who has always felt nurtured within predominantly white institutions. My discomfort is zilch compared to the real pain long endured by colleagues and students of color."

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• SOURCE: Nashville Scene
  6/7/2021
  

  Forrest's Remains, the National Confederate Museum and Racist Hate

  The Sons of Confederate Veterans' effort to move Nathan Bedford Forrest's remains from Memphis to its National Confederate Museum only makes sense if the SCV intends to valorize Confederates who were active in the KKK after the Civil War. 

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  6/7/2021
  

  Retaining Its Name

  Despite a protest movement by students and other stakeholders, Washington and Lee University's institutional changes in response to its legacy of slavery and ties to the Confederacy will not include rejecting Robert E. Lee's name.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  5/10/2021
  

  Why Confederate Lies Live On

  by Clint Smith

  Throughout the south, and in the minds of Americans, aesthetics and idealized depictions of valor continue to obscure the fact that the Confederacy fought to maintain a social order based on the ownership of human beings and white supremacy.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  4/13/2021
  

  Hank Aaron’s Name Will Replace a Confederate General’s on an Atlanta School

  “Names do matter,” Jason F. Esteves, Atlanta’s school board chairman, said at Monday’s meeting.

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• SOURCE: Mississippi Free Press
  4/12/2021
  

  ‘Darn’ Tootin’ It Is!’: Gov. Tate Reeves Again Declares Confederate Heritage Month, SCV Says

  While official state web pages have not posted such a proclamation, Governor Tate Reeves has apparently signed a proclamation again declaring April Confederate Heritage Month, as posted on the Facebook page of the Sons of Confederate Veterans of Rankin County, MS. Writer Donna Ladd says Reeves' proclamation equates the Union and Confederate causes in the Civil War.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  4/12/2021
  

  Black Protesters Have Been Rallying Against Confederate Statues for Generations

  by Karen L. Cox

  The movement to remove monuments and memorials to the Confederacy and historical figures with ties to racism or slavery is not new; it should be recognized as part of a longstanding effort by African Americans to challenge the public veneration of white supremacy. 

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• SOURCE: WWLTV
  4/9/2021
  

  Jefferson Davis Memorial Chair Stolen from Alabama Cemetery Found in New Orleans, 2 Arrested

  The chair was recovered in New Orleans, and two suspects have been arrested with a third at large.