Monument defenders responded with gerrymandering and "heritage" laws intended to block efforts to remove these statues, but hard as they worked to preserve the Lost Cause vision of southern history, civil rights activists, Black elected officials, and movements of ordinary people fought harder to take the story back. She lucidly shows the forces that drove white southerners to construct beacons of white supremacy, as well as the ways that antimonument sentiment, largely stifled during the Jim Crow era, returned with the civil rights movement and gathered momentum in the decades after the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Cox depicts what these statues meant to those who erected them and how a movement arose to force a reckoning. In this eye-opening narrative of the efforts to raise, preserve, protest, and remove Confederate monuments, Karen L. These conflicts have raged for well over a century-but they've never been as intense as they are today.
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. for UNC Charlotte.When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. for Park Road Books and April 22 at 5:30 p.m. Karen Cox has two virtual events coming up where she'll be discussing her book "No Common Ground" April 20 at 7 p.m. Harvey Gantt, former Charlotte mayor, he was a member of Charlotte City Council when a Confederate monument was erected at the old City Hall in 1977 ( minutes from the 1977 city council meeting in which Gantt spoke out against the monument.) Karen Cox, professor of history at UNC Charlotte and author of No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice
Plus, we hear from former Charlotte Mayor Harvey Gantt about a scuffle over a Confederate monument in Charlotte when he was a member of City Council in 1977.ĭr. She joins guest host Erik Spanberg to explain. In her new book, she digs into the historical context behind the monuments, which she says is essential to understanding their meaning. Karen Cox says there is "no common ground" when it comes to these monuments. We’re still debating why the Civil War was fought - and now, what to do with the Confederate monuments that honor the losing side. How we remember that history has a direct connection. Still, many of today’s conflicts can be traced back to that tumultuous time in American history. It’s been 160 years since the beginning of the Civil War.
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