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Remembering the Civil War: Monuments & Violence - Coggle Diagram
Remembering the Civil War: Monuments & Violence
Lecture - Legacies of the Civil War
1965 essay by Bruce Catton
America "healed" from the Civil War
"Lost Cause" honoring of Confederates helped unite the nation
Ignores racist foundations of Lost Cause ideology
Removed slavery from the war's cause
Justified Jim Crow and white supremacy
Repeats mainstream interpretations of the 1960s
Reconciliationist Memory
Promoted national reunion avoiding topics like slavery
White Supremacist Memory
Made peace by accepting racist narratives
Leads to Jim Crow, segregation, and erasing of Black contributions and emancipation
Emancipationist Memory
Slavery as the cause of the war
Citizenship and equality under new Amendments
Fueled the Civil Rights Movement
Article - The Fate of Confederate Monuments Should Be Clear
Debates over Confederate monuments
Linked to slavery and white supremacy
Part of culture of Confederate romanticism similar to those in movies, books, and plantations
"Lost Cause" Myth
Confederacy as noble defenders of states' rights rather than slavery
Popularized by Edward A. Pollard's 1866 book
Slavery as "beneficial"
Monuments were rare until Reconstruction was overturned and Black voters were disenfranchised
Campaign to reshape the South with monuments and legal segregation
NPR - They're strangers with a painful shared bond: Robert E. Lee enslaved their ancestors
Reunion of descendants of Robert E. Lee and the people the Lee family enslaved
Amis to foster racial understanding and reconciliation through dialogue
Stress the fact that ancestral actions do not define the present individuals