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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 was gifted by the state of Alabama in 1925. [1] Wheeler fought for two different armies in two different wars: for the Confederate States Army in the Civil War and for the United States Army in the Spanish–American War, where he saw active service both in Cuba and the Philippines. During the Civil War Wheeler was known as "Fighting ...
The Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee Monument, often referred to simply as the Jackson and Lee Monument or Lee and Jackson Monument, was a double equestrian statue of Confederate generals Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee, formerly located on the west side of the Wyman Park Dell in Charles Village in Baltimore, Maryland, alongside a forested hill, similar to the topography of ...
Faison: Monument to the "Confederate Grays" 20th Regiment North Carolina State Troops (1932) [14] Fayetteville: Confederate Soldiers Monument (1868) at Cross Creek Cemetery; the first Confederate monument in North Carolina [14] Confederate Soldiers Monument (1902) [14] Confederate Arsenal (1928) Judah P. Benjamin marker (1944) [39] Fletcher:
During the many years required to raise the funds needed for the memorial, various designs and placements in the city were considered. [8] Unveiled in 1907 on Confederate Memorial Day – June 3 [7] [10] – on what would have been Davis' 99th birthday, the monument was funded by the Jefferson Davis Monument Association and the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
Fame, also called Gloria Victis ("Glory to the Defeated" or "Glory to the Conquered"), [1] is a Confederate monument in Salisbury, North Carolina.Cast in Brussels, in 1891, Fame is one of two nearly-identical sculptures by Frederick Ruckstull (the other being the Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument, removed from public display in Baltimore in 2017).
The bronze sculpture was designed by Edward Virginius Valentine. [1] It measures approximately 7 ft. x 18 in. x 18 in., and rests on a granite base measuring approximately 10 ft. x 88 1/2 in. x 88 1/2 in. [2] The statue depicts Williams Carter Wickham wearing a Confederate uniform and holding a case for his field glasses in his proper right hand.