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Confederate monument-building has often been part of widespread campaigns to promote and justify Jim Crow laws in the South. [12] [13] According to the American Historical Association (AHA), the erection of Confederate monuments during the early 20th century was "part and parcel of the initiation of legally mandated segregation and widespread disenfranchisement across the South."
The statue represents Confederate officer, Captain Robert D. Logan (Front of base:) CSA/UDC (as a monogram)/1861-1865/ERECTED BY THE U. D. C./AND THE VETERANS/OF THE C. S. A. OF BOYLE CO./TO THE CONFEDERATE DEAD (Back of base:) WHAT THEY WERE THE WHOLE WORLD KNOWS [ 60 ]
Chart of public symbols of the Confederacy and its leaders as surveyed by the Southern Poverty Law Center, by year of establishment [note 1]. Most of the Confederate monuments on public land were built in periods of racial conflict, such as when Jim Crow laws were being introduced in the late 19th century and at the start of the 20th century or during the civil rights movement of the 1950s and ...
Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument, Libby Hill Park (1894). Defaced with graffiti in 2015. [50] Hunter Holmes McGuire statue, on Capitol Square. McGuire was a Confederate veteran, Stonewall Jackson's personal physician, and an influential supporter of the "Lost Cause" view of the Confederacy and the Civil War.
Note: This is a sublist of List of Confederate monuments and memorials from the Georgia section. This is a list of Confederate monuments and memorials in Georgia that were established as public displays and symbols of the Confederate States of America (CSA), Confederate leaders, or Confederate soldiers of the American Civil War.
Note: This is a sublist of List of Confederate monuments and memorials from the South Carolina section. This is a list of Confederate monuments and memorials in South Carolina that were established as public displays and symbols of the Confederate States of America (CSA), Confederate leaders, or Confederate soldiers of the American Civil War.
OpEd: A new documentary will commemorate that historic event and look at stories of Black excellence in Lexington history.
Note: This is a sublist of List of Confederate monuments and memorials from the Mississippi section. This is a list of Confederate monuments and memorials in Mississippi that were established as public displays and symbols of the Confederate States of America (CSA), Confederate leaders, or Confederate soldiers of the American Civil War.