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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."
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 ...
The statue is generally referred to as the "Confederate Memorial" and sometimes as the "Confederate Monument". [p] [q] It has no official name, although Moses Ezekiel preferred the title "New South". [93] [135] The memorial is richly decorated, [42] and reflects Ezekiel's training in Germany as well as the ornate Romantic style of Victorian ...
On the north side of Capitol Hill there is a monument dedicated to Alabama's more than 122,000 Confederate veterans of the Civil War, known as the Confederate Memorial Monument. The 88-foot (27 m) tall monument was dedicated on December 7, 1898, although it had been planned as early as November 1865. [ 1 ]
The monument is seventy-six feet high on a granite base, topped by a shaft of Carrara marble. The monument was commissioned in 1875 by the Ladies Memorial Association of Augusta. [ 2 ] It was designed by the architectural firm of VanGruder and Young of Philadelphia, built by the Markwalter firm of Augusta, [ 3 ] carved by Antonio Fontana, [ 4 ...
The statue, designed by John Segesman, depicts a soldier of the Confederate States Army, the Southern army during the American Civil War of 1861–1865. [1]According to the Smithsonian Institution Research Information System, he is seen "standing with his proper left leg forward and his proper left foot resting on a camp pack with a bed roll.
The monument was dedicated on April 26, 1874, [2] on Confederate Memorial Day. [3] Librarian and archivist Ruth Blair , speaking in 1939, called the structure Atlanta's first monument. [ 4 ] At the time of its dedication, the 65-foot (20 m) tall obelisk stood as the tallest structure in the city, a record it would hold for several years. [ 3 ]
The Confederate Monument, University of North Carolina, commonly known as Silent Sam, is a bronze statue of a Confederate soldier by Canadian sculptor John A. Wilson, which once stood on McCorkle Place of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) from 1913 until it was pulled down by protestors on August 20, 2018.