The real story behjnd all those Confederate statues

The real story behjnd all those Confederate statues

"No one should think that these statues were meant to be somber postbellum reminders of a brutal war. They were built much later, and most of them were explicitly created to accompany organized and violent efforts to subdue blacks and maintain white supremacy in the South."

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/08/the-real-story-of-all-those-confederate-statues/
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/08/the-real-story-of-all-those-confederate-statues/