confederate monuments
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Will Austin, Texas Get a New Name? A Local Report on Confederate Monuments Suggests Renaming City
Stephen F. Austin, known also as the “father of Texas” is often credited with carving out the early outlines of Texas, so perhaps it is apt that the capital of the Lone Star state is named after him. Except, hold that thought. Or at least that’s what Austin’s Equity Office wants you to do after…
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Design Unveiled for Proposed Memorial at Emanuel A.M.E. Church, Site of Horrific Charleston, S.C. Shooting
Before white supremacist Dylann Roof shot and killed nine parishioners in Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., the church was known foremost as being the oldest AME church in the South. Now, three years after the deadly shooting, the church plans to construct a memorial dedicated to the nine victims and five survivors of…
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Confederate Barbie Says 'Minority' Who Doesn't Like Confederate Monuments is Like ISIS
A woman continued her crusade to keep the name of a Confederate General on a Georgia park by informing her county commision that erasing the rebel soldier’s name is the same thing Islamic State terrorists did in the Middle East. Previously on “Gone With the Windbag,” East Cobb, Ga. resident Mary Stevens addressed the Cobb…
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It's 2018 and These Trash Bags Are Still Erecting Confederate Monuments
To see the ways in which a country views itself, and its history, you need look no further than its monuments and memorials. These civic markers act as modes of remembrance, imploring onlookers to remember great historical feats and figures (as the Lincoln Memorial does), or to reflect on a complicated past (as the Vietnam…
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Section of Baltimore Park, Once the Site of Trash Confederate Statues, Now Renamed After Harriet Tubman
It’s never going to be a bad decision to rename something after renowned badass and “conductor” of the Underground Railroad Harriet Tubman. And following that school of thought, a section of a Baltimore park that was once the location of some loser statues has been renamed after the iconic abolitionist. According to CBS Baltimore, the…
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Tracing Your Roots: My Confederate Ancestor Is on Monuments; Who Did He Own?
The debate over Confederate monuments inspires one woman to find the descendants of people her memorialized ancestor enslaved. Dear Professor Gates: I just read your previous column regarding the Confederate general Wade Hampton III, of whom I am a direct descendant. In it, you addressed whether there was a connection between Gen. Hampton and a…
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Robert E. Lee Beads Bring Mardi Gras’ Historic Racism Full Circle
The ongoing national debate over race and Confederate monuments reared its ugly head during this year’s Mardi Gras. Some of the infamous beads thrown into the crowds reflected the image of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee to protest the removal of his statue from New Orleans’ most prominent traffic circle, which has been a symbolic…
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South Carolina Republicans Want to Build Stupidest Confederate Monument Ever
Two South Carolina politicians have proposed a commission to erect a monument honoring the legacy of black soldiers who fought for the South during the Civil War. The proposal is authored by a representative who has long been a vocal defender of the Confederate flag and another Republican lawmaker who said that the victims of…
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In the Dark of Night, 2 Confederate Statues in Memphis, Tenn., Come Down
For 113 years, a bronze statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest—a man who rose above his station thanks to the slave trade, a Confederate general who orchestrated the massacre of black soldiers at Fort Pillow, and the Ku Klux Klan’s first grand wizard—loomed over downtown Memphis, Tenn. At 9:01 p.m. Wednesday, a time the New York…