Confederate monuments
Disputed Southern memorials
Confederate monuments are statues, memorials, and other public installations honoring figures or events of the Confederate States of America, the secessionist government that fought to preserve slavery during the American Civil War.
Most were erected decades after the war ended, particularly during the Jim Crow era and Civil Rights movement, making their historical purpose a subject of ongoing debate.
Controversies over Confederate monuments center on whether they represent heritage or white supremacy, with many removed or relocated since 2015.
- ReconstructionPost-1865 national reunification period
- bronze statuesCast alloy artworks depicting figures
- Civil WarCountrymen fighting countrymen
- protestsPublic expressions of opposition
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
memory · Stone Mountain · collective memory · white supremacy · racial justice · obelisks · slavery · secession · pedestals · identity · Lost Cause · Jim Crow era · Jefferson Davis · Southern pride · Robert E. Lee · relief carvings · inscriptions · public policy
- Southern PoliticsDixiecrats, Jim Crow, poll tax, poll taxes, one-party rule
- Confederate symbolsrebel flag, stars and bars, Dixie flag, battle flag, Southern Cross
- Civil War aftermath13th Amendment, 14th Amendment, freedmen, Reconstruction, sharecropping
- Gilded AgeGilded Age, robber baron, robber barons, Carnegie, Rockefeller
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