Confederate Memorials

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• SOURCE: The Intercept
  10/6/19
  

  Why is the Army Still Honoring Confederate Generals?

  by James Risen

  Many bases are named for Confederates who were ardent white supremacists in the South before, during, and after the Civil War.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian.com
  5/3/19
  

  Judge Rules Charlottesville’s Confederate Statues Are War Monuments

  But the legal fight to remove the city’s statues of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson may not be over.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  9-17-16
  

  Alexandria will seek to move Confederate statue and rename Jefferson Davis Highway

  In a town that once took considerable pride in its Confederate past, the Alexandria City Council voted unanimously Saturday to change the name of Jefferson Davis Highway and seek permission from the Virginia General Assembly to move a renowned statue of a Confederate soldier in historic Old Town.

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• SOURCE: My Statesman
  8-25-16
  

  UT removes Confederate inscription that it previously said would stay

  “It is inappropriate for our goal of diversity and inclusion on campus,” UT President Gregory L.Fenves said.

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• SOURCE: The Dallas Morning News
  7-7-16
  

  'Black Lives Matter' painted on UT Confederate memorial after Alton Sterling, Philando Castile shootings

  The message was scrawled across the George Littlefield Fountain, a prominent memorial that anchors the school's South Mall.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  6-27-16
  

  The lingering stain after the flags come down at Washington & Lee

  by Adam Lewis

  But the university handled the controversy just right.

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• SOURCE: The Post and Courier
  6-9-16
  

  South Carolina Gov. Haley vetoes proposal to move Confederate flag, museum to Charleston

  She called it a “veiled attempt” to create a museum for the H.L. Hunley Confederate submarine, which is undergoing restoration in North Charleston.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  5-8-16
  

  The South’s Confederate-monument problem is not going away

  Ignoble history happened in America. And now we are wrestling with how to claim it, or reject it, by consigning Confederate statues to scrap.

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• SOURCE: Courier Journal
  4-29-16
  

  Now it’s the University of Louisville’s turn to remove a Confederate statue

  The decision came less than two weeks after Ricky L. Jones, professor and chair of Pan-African Studies at U of L, wrote a column in the Courier-Journal calling for the university to take the statue down.

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  4-28-16
  

  Middle Tenn. State President Wants to Strip Confederate General’s Name From Building

  Middle Tennessee State University’s president, Sidney A. McPhee, is recommending the renaming of Forrest Hall, which honors the Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest.

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• SOURCE: Southern Poverty Law Center
  4-21-16
  

  SPLC study finds 1,500 government-backed tributes to the Confederacy across U.S.

  Most were put in place during the early decades of Jim Crow or in reaction to the civil rights movement.

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• SOURCE: The Commercial Appeal
  4-22-16
  

  Confederate history embraced by Brazilian city

  Everywhere you go you see Confederate flags.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  4-10-16
  

  Whitewashing history? Tug-of-war over Confederate monuments rages on.

  The fate of Confederate monuments standing on public property has been a topic of debate — civil and uncivil.

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• SOURCE: Like The Dew
  4-1-16
  

  Happy Confederate History and Heritage Month

  by David B. Parker

  But just what cause are we honoring exactly?

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• SOURCE: The Clarion-Ledger
  4-4-16
  

  Historians at Ole Miss say a Confederate monument plaque has to be frank about slavery

  33 historians say in a signed statement that the plaque must acknowledge that the South fought for slavery.

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  4-4-16
  

  Stop Honoring Racists — Say Goodbye to John Mullaly Park in the Bronx

  by Alan Singer

  During the Civil War Mullaly, an avowed racist, called for armed resistance to the military draft.

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• SOURCE: The Roanoke Times
  3-22-16
  

  Protests break out at meeting about removing Lee statue in Charlottesville park

  Among the protesters’ jeers were accusations that those supporting the removal of the monument are “communists” and members of the “Taliban.”

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  3-23-16
  

  In Explaining Confederate Symbols, Colleges Struggle to Summarize History

  Across the country, and the South especially, colleges and universities are coming to terms with their historical ties to the Confederacy, and how those ties are honored through monuments, statues, and building names.

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• SOURCE: Think Progress
  3-21-16
  

  What Mississippi Educators Are Telling Students About State Sanctioned Confederate Heritage Month

  Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant’s controversial decision to declare April Confederate Heritage Month is giving teachers an opportunity to tell the truth about the Confederacy, but do students want to hear it? 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  3-10-16
  

  Not All Racist Monuments Should Be Torn Down

  by Zachary Fine

  Preserving them risks legitimizing white supremacy, but removing them risks erasing our mistakes. Here's a third way.