No Common Ground
No Common Ground When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. These conflicts have raged for well over a century--but they've never been as intense as they are today.In this…
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No Common Ground
When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. These conflicts have raged for well over a century--but they've never been as intense as they are today.In this eye-opening narrative of the efforts to raise, preserve, protest, and remove Confederate monuments, Karen L. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to preserve the statues, legal battles to remove them, and rowdy crowds taking matters into their own hands.
She lucidly shows the forces that drove white southerners to construct beacons of white supremacy, as well as the ways that antimonument sentiment, largely stifled during the Jim Crow era, returned with the civil rights movement and gathered momentum in the decades after the Voting Rights Act of Cox depicts what these statues meant to those who erected them and how a movement arose to force a reckoning.