Replies (0) 1 0. wackatimesthree Member since Oct 2019 430 posts. If racism was not the primary motivation for Confederate monument-building, what exactly was?Below is SPLC’s timeline as found on Mother Jones. Each month, the pages of What motivated these women to take the lead? in Adolescent Education at Binghamton University. The Charlottesville City Council voted to remove the statue and change the name of the space from Lee Park to Emancipation Park.By then, the construction of new Confederate monuments had begun to taper off, but the backlash to the Protesters and city officials have gradually taken down statues in multiple towns and cities. And since I’m not an academic, I … How many years mark the centennial anniversary of a town, church, or business? That 50 year mark even makes sense under this rubric. One of the leaders of that group, Carl V. Jones, That letter to "compatriots" was signed the day before Trump's Yet many historians say the argument about preserving Southern history doesn't hold up when you consider the timing of when the "beautiful" statues, as Trump called them, went up. In the middle part of the century, the civil rights movement pushed back against that segregation.James Grossman, the executive director of the American Historical Association, says that the increase in statues and monuments was clearly meant to send a message.

UDC president Mrs. Livingston Rowe Schuyler happened to have attended the 191st celebration of George Washington’s birthday and was inspired by a speech. And since I’m not an academic, I feel comfortable squeezing this history into a very short, oversimplified summary:Yes, these monuments were put up to honor Confederate leaders and soldiers. Women were at the heart of much of the reunion and commemorative culture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.If UFC is simply grannies why do they have a textbook project.Not too complicated, they lost the war but still had their pride, from which monuments arose, a natural reaction to those who died on their side of the war.“Perhaps the best example of the oversight by the UDC was through the work of “historian general” Mildred L. Rutherford of Georgia. In comparing Robert E. Lee to Presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson on Tuesday, President Trump doesn't seem to feel the same.Dailey pointed to an 1861 speech by Alexander Stephens, who would go on to become vice president of the Confederacy. Anyway, it’s a theory.I read that when Lee surrendered, General Grant had the Union band play “Dixie” as a recognition of the vanquished Confederate Army…Regarding racism… I am thoroughly disgusted with the overuse of the term…The monuments were built as a way to memorialize the conflict as an American one and mend relations between North and South. Take 100 years away from the second spike (slightly after 1960), and one arrives at around 1861—the one-hundred year anniversary of the start of the Civil War. "Most of the people who were involved in erecting the monuments were not necessarily erecting a monument to the past," said Jane Dailey, an associate professor of history at the University of Chicago. The construction of the Davis obelisk was carried out as a national effort spearheaded by women motivated by a labor of love (the second factor) and financed by selling items like paper flowers (as well as by other larger contributions), not by the efforts of well-financed southern lynch mobs eager to put the brakes on the advancement of African-Americans in the postbellum South. I wouldn’t be surprised if even a lot of Southerners don’t really understand this, but they should learn. It would be hard to argue that Washington was fighting a war to bring equality due to the fact that the United States retained slavery before, during, and after the Revolution, and that Washington himself owned slaves until the day he died.The Imaginative Conservative is sponsored by The Free Enterprise Institute (a U.S. 501(c)3 tax exempt organization). They were mostly built during times when Southern whites were engaged in vicious campaigns of subjugation against blacks, and during those campaigns the message sent by a statue of Robert E. Lee in front of a courthouse was loud and clear.No one should think that these statues were meant to be somber postbellum reminders of a brutal war. In my estimation, there are two main factors.The first factor is fairly obvious based on the tendency of Americans to celebrate certain events at fifty-year increments. On June 9, 2020, protesters toppled a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis in Richmond, Virginia. Well I’ll be darned—the fifty year anniversary of the Civil War!