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[Undated - 1866]: All I think that can now
be done, is to aid our noble & generous women in their efforts to protect the
graves & mark the last resting places of those who have fallen, & wait for
better times.
http://leefamilyarchive.org/papers/letters/transcripts-UVA/v076.html
-- 2017 --
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Confederate monuments are and always have been monuments to white supremacy.
https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/8/15/16153220/trump-confederate-statues
August 16: The first spike [in erection of
Civil War monuments] is around 1900. That's 35 years after the
end of the Civil War.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/16/us/confederate-monuments-backlash-chart-trnd/?iid=ob_lockedrail_bottomlist
August 16: 'Changing history'? No – 32
Confederate monuments dedicated in past 17 years
Trump complains that efforts to take down Confederate memorials amount to
altering the past, but numerous examples made their mark in recent decades
In 1994, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
led an effort to ban Confederate flags from South Carolina,
including one that flew over the state house. In 2000, 50,000 people turned
out to protest the state house flag. It finally came down
in June 2015 after the killing of nine black people in a church in
Charleston.
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Trump has been criticized by fellow Republicans, business leaders, military
generals and a multitude of Americans for endorsing and spreading the
explanation of white supremacists that a rally last Friday in
Charlottesville was to defend the statue. The rally became a showcase for Nazi
ideology and racist ideology – and then the scene of a murderous attack and a
latter-day tragedy.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/16/confederate-monuments-civil-war-history-trump
August 17: ... the push to take down
Confederate monuments received unexpected support from descendants of Jackson.
Writing to Richmond, Va., Mayor Levar Stoney, a longtime critic of his city’s
Confederate statues, two great-great-grandsons of Jackson called the monuments
“overt symbols of racism and white supremacy” that should have been taken down
long ago.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-monuments-found-20170817-story.html
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August 17: Trump Defends 'Beauty' Of
Confederate Memorials
President Trump stood by his heavily criticized defense of monuments
commemorating the Confederacy in a series of tweets Thursday morning. Trump said
removing the statues of Confederate generals meant removing "beauty" — that
would "never able to be comparably replaced" — from American cities. As he did
in a Tuesday press conference, he also attempted to equate some Confederate
generals with some of the Founding Fathers.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who has sometimes been a critic of the president,
said in a series of tweets Thursday that Trump needs to act in a manner that
doesn't garner praise from
racist
and hate-filled groups.
https://www.npr.org/2017/08/17/544137751/trump-defends-beauty-of-confederate-memorials
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August 17: Showing his characteristic
refusal to back down in the face of criticism, President Trump deepened his
defense of Confederate war memorials Thursday, sending out a series of messages
on Twitter that adopted the language and arguments of white nationalists who
have opposed their removal.
Monuments to leaders of the
Confederacy were erected across the South, and in some other parts of the
country, mostly starting in the early years of the 20th century, as whites
fought to prevent black citizens from voting and increased the strictures of
segregation that barred blacks from schools, hotels, restaurants and white
sections of trains and other public accommodations.
http://www.latimes.com/politics/washington/la-na-essential-washington-updates-president-trump-nation-s-culture-being-1502976539-htmlstory.html
August 17: The placement of the statues and
monuments in public squares coincided with the rise of the Ku Klux Klan and the
murder of thousands of blacks by lynch mobs in the early decades of the last
century.
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To
blacks, and many white Southerners, the statues have long been a symbol of
racial oppression. In recent years, the movement to take them down and, in some
cases, put them in museums instead of public parks, has gained strength in many
Southern cities.
http://www.latimes.com/politics/washington/la-na-essential-washington-updates-president-trump-nation-s-culture-being-1502976539-htmlstory.html
August 17:
...
Robert E. Lee was against erecting Confederate memorials ... In [an] 1866 letter
to fellow Confederate Gen. Thomas L. Rosser,
Lee wrote, "As regards the erection of such a monument as is contemplated,
my conviction is, that however grateful it would be to the feelings of the
South, the attempt ... would have the effect of ... continuing, if not adding
to, the difficulties under which the Southern people labour."
http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/16/us/robert-e-lee-statues-letters-trnd/?iid=ob_lockedrail_bottomlist
August 22:
How Donald Trump learned to love Confederate monuments
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The pretext for the far-right groups’ demonstration was a proposal to remove a
bronze statue of Robert E. Lee, the Confederacy’s top general during America’s
Civil War, from a park in Charlottesville.
Mr Trump’s establishment-minded advisors, already
concerned that the president was branding Republicans as the party of
intolerance, grimaced at the messages [from Trump]. After all, Lee and his ilk
were indisputably traitors to America: they launched an armed rebellion against
the United States government that left
roughly 750,000 people dead. Moreover, the resounding consensus among
historians is that the Confederacy’s
primary motivation for secession was to
forestall the possibility that the federal government might try to stop them
from enslaving African-Americans. And arguments that Confederate monuments
merely honour Southern “heritage” and fallen soldiers’ bravery are
ahistorical at best.
https://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2017/08/daily-chart-14
August 30:
Confederate
Monuments Are Propaganda — Not History
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/08/confederate-monuments-are-propaganda-not-history.html
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