First, a Civil War explainer, if you never really studied this stuff or it’s been a minute:
Read and explore these resources on Confederate Monuments
Watch this video: https://www.theguardian.com/global/video/2017/aug/22/battle-over-confederate-statues-united-states-video-explainer
Read this (note that it is from 2017): https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/8/18/16165160/confederate-monuments-history-charlottesville-white-supremacy
Read this article AND take time to explore the timeline included in its images:
Explore this photo project of plinths after statues have been removed: https://www.hectorrene.com/ozymandias
This summer, the city of Charlottesville, Virginia, was finally allowed to remove the statues of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson that became the flashpoint for the “Unite The Right” rally that brought Nazis to town. As it happened, the statues were taken down while I was on a train headed there to visit a friend. Here are two pictures I took of what was once known as Jackson Park, now known as Court Square Park. The first, taken in 2017, shows the statue shrouded. The second, taken this summer, shows its empty plinth.
