In 2017, then-Mayor Mitch Landrieu powerfully defended the city’s removal of three prominent monuments and denounced the “false narrative” promoted by the “Cult of the Lost Cause.” That cult, he said, “had one goal - through monuments and through other means - to rewrite history to hide the truth, which is that the Confederacy was on the wrong side of humanity.” In New Orleans, a multicultural city steeped in Southern history, the political leadership took the opposite tack. President Donald Trump has sided with those who want to continue honoring the Confederacy, calling the removal of “beautiful” monuments “foolish” and tweeting that it is “ad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart.” We saw a dramatic display of their anger in August 2017 when hundreds of racists marched with torches and shouted Nazi slogans in Charlottesville, Virginia, where a young, anti-racist counterprotester was killed. White supremacists have also taken up the cause, staging hundreds of rallies across the country to protest monument removals. Others are shielded by civic leaders who refuse to act in the face of a strong backlash by white Southerners who are still enthralled by the myth of the “Lost Cause” and the revisionist history that these monuments represent. Many of these monuments are protected by state laws in the former Confederate states.
In this updated edition of the 2016 report Whose Heritage?, the SPLC identifies 114 Confederate symbols that have been removed since the Charleston attack - and 1,747 that still stand. Yet, today, the vast majority of these emblems remain in place. The 2015 massacre of nine African Americans at the historic “Mother Emanuel” church in Charleston, South Carolina, sparked a nationwide movement to remove Confederate monuments, flags and other symbols from the public square, and to rename schools, parks, roads and other public works that pay homage to the Confederacy. Learn more about how communities are dismantling a whitewashed history of the Confederacy and sparking a reckoning with the truth about its cruel legacy by listening to the SPLC’s podcast, Sounds Like Hate.
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That data is available to download for research and exploration. It’s past time for the South – and the rest of the nation – to bury the myth of the Lost Cause once and for all.Īs of February 1, 2019, the data set, map, and online report are up to date as reported to and vetted by the SPLC. Our public entities should no longer play a role in distorting history by honoring a secessionist government that waged war against the United States to preserve white supremacy and the enslavement of millions of people. The Confederacy, as former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu has said, was on the wrong side of humanity.
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