Thanks for your time. I've read arguments that many of the monuments were put up during the Jim Crow era and again during the civil rights era, thus the monuments were intended as an expression of white supremacy. Several sites circulated a graph showing a spike in monument building in the 1890s. And I've read the counter-argument that this was when Confederate officers were dying, so of course that's when they were memorialized. (I don't recall any counter-argument for the smaller spike alleged during the 50s and 60s.) Can you weigh in on the motivations behind these monuments?
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Thanks for your time. I've read arguments that many of the monuments were put up during the Jim Crow era and again during the civil rights era, thus the monuments were intended as an expression of white supremacy. Several sites circulated a graph showing a spike in monument building in the 1890s. And I've read the counter-argument that this was when Confederate officers were dying, so of course that's when they were memorialized. (I don't recall any counter-argument for the smaller spike alleged during the 50s and 60s.) Can you weigh in on the motivations behind these monuments?
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