I’m not even counting the various other large monuments to individual Confederate officers.
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These confederate statues erected during the re-birth of the KKK, the Civil Rights era, or the school desegregation turmoil are racial slurs made of stone.
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I imagine the earlier ones were, in part, due to the fact that’s when confederate veterans started dying off
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That’s a factor. The success of Birth of a Nation in 1915 and the encouragement of the Wilson administration was likely part of it, and the apex of the second Klan’s membership in the mid-1920s as well.
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