Lee in cities such as Charleston, New Orleans, Charlottesville, and Richmond. Cox follows changes that have occurred since Reconstruction in the stances of friends and foes of the monuments, including Black activists whose opposition grew during the civil rights era and gained further momentum during recent protests centered on Confederate battle flags or statues of Robert E. In this engrossing social history, the author writes that while these memorials began with an impulse to remember the dead, the United Daughters of the Confederacy soon began using them to promote the so-called “Lost Cause” view that in the Civil War, the South fought not for slavery but for states’ rights. A chronicle of the effort to erect and protect or remove Confederate statues or other monuments.Ĭox, a historian of the American South, estimates that several hundred monuments to the Confederacy exist in cemeteries, town squares, and other public spaces, and many have faced political and legal challenges in recent years.
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