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No common ground : Confederate monuments and the ongoing fight for racial justice

Cox, Karen L. 1962- (author.).

Summary: "When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to preserve the statues, legal battles to remove them, and rowdy crowds taking matters into their own hands. These conflicts have raged for well over a century--but they've never been as intense as they are today. In this eye-opening narrative of the efforts to raise, preserve, protest, and remove Confederate monuments, Karen L. Cox depicts what these statues meant to those who erected them and how a movement arose to force a reckoning"--

Record details

ISBN: 1469662671
ISBN: 9781469662671
Physical Description: 206 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Publisher: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2021]
Copyright: ©2021

Content descriptions

General Note:	"A Ferris and Ferris Book."
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-200) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Rewriting history in stone -- From bereavement to vindication -- Confederate culture and the struggle for civil rights -- Monuments and the battle for first-class citizenship -- Debating removal in a changing political landscape -- Charleston, Charlottesville, and continued challenges to removal.