CONFEDERATE MONUMENTS - The Debate

IMHO:  Note the Confederacy conducted a war against the United States of America, a union which they signed a contract (Constitution of the United States) to join and support.  They committed treason and the Confederacy should never be calibrated nor memorialized.

"What the future could hold for these symbols of the American past" PBS NewsHour 6/23/2020

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SUMMARY:  As the country faces a moment of reckoning about its treatment of Black Americans and other people of color, the display of memorials, monuments and statues is being reexamined.  Some of these symbols are being torn down by protesters, and others removed by authorities or relocated.  But what is the historical context behind their origin?  Jeffrey Brown reports for our Race Matters coverage.

"Monuments, statues and a national reckoning on racial injustice" PBS NewsHour 6/23/2020

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SUMMARY:  The debate over physical symbols of the Confederacy has evolved into a broader one about U.S. history.  Judy Woodruff talks to Peniel Joseph, professor at the University of Texas at Austin, W. Fitzhugh Brundage, professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Arielle Hudson one of six students who petitioned the University of Mississippi to relocate a campus Confederate statue.

GRAPPLING WITH HISTORY - Confederate Monuments

"Confederate monument removed by one Kentucky city finds another home" PBS NewsHour 9/13/2017

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SUMMARY:  Cities around the country are grappling with whether to keep or take down monuments.  In Louisville, Kentucky, a monument honoring confederate soldiers has been the source of controversy for years, even after its removal.  Forty miles to the southwest, in the town of Brandenburg, the statue was taken with open arms.  Jeffrey Brown reports on Kentucky's understanding of its past and present.