Donald's 'Beautiful Statues'

The Southern Poverty Law Center has institute over 1,500 symbols of the Confederacy inwards populace spaces, generally inwards the southern United States. These include non simply statues in addition to other memorials but schools, parks in addition to roads which convey been named for Confederate leaders or battles.

In Whose Heritage? Public Symbols of the Confederacy the SPLC has included an interactive map showing the place of these Confederate symbols in addition to memorials. The map uses color coded markers to demo which are monuments, which are schools in addition to which are roads. If you lot require a marking on the map you lot tin orbit notice too run into the twelvemonth that this selected memorial to the Confederacy was dedicated.

The SPLC has used these dates of dedication to too render a timeline of when memorials to the Confederacy convey been dedicated since the goal of the Civil War. This timeline shows that at that spot convey been 2 top dog periods which convey seen spikes inwards the release of Confederacy memorials beingness dedicated. The origin was inwards the origin 2 decades of the Twentieth Century. The minute was inwards the 1950's in addition to 1960's.

The SPLC has its theories most why these periods saw spikes inwards the release of Confederacy memorials beingness dedicated - but you'll convey to read the SPLC article to notice what those theories are.