{"id":14631,"date":"2017-02-13T16:33:57","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T00:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=14631"},"modified":"2023-09-06T15:29:20","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T22:29:20","slug":"history-or-hate-americas-controversial-monuments-white-supremacy","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/dipsy.pbs.org\/independentlens\/blog\/history-or-hate-americas-controversial-monuments-white-supremacy\/","title":{"rendered":"History or Hate: America&#8217;s Controversial Monuments to White Supremacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The thing about claiming territory and property is that it takes up space, and taking up space literally makes a huge statement; it becomes a platform for discussing who built something there, and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">why<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. So when black musician Daryl Davis shares his collection of former KKK members\u2019 robes and his hopes of opening a \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Museum of the Klan<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d in Matt Ornstein\u2019s documentary <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/documentaries\/accidental-courtesy\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Accidental Courtesy<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, does this become a platform of hate or history? This has been an ongoing debate long before Davis\u2019s proposed museum, as many memorials of Confederate and KKK leaders have been built since the Civil War. More than twenty of them still stand in fact. Here are some of the most talked about:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Battle of Liberty Place Memorial<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1874. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">White League versus the New Orleans Metropolitan Police<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The White League, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">an American white paramilitary organization formed to intimidate former slaves from voting,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> won, making segregation official in New Orleans. Another result of The White League\u2019s 1874 victory was a monument honoring White League members who died in the Battle at Canal Street, a brief insurrection in New Orleans. Flash forward to 1932, an inscription was added to the monument stating that the Battle of Liberty Place was fought to &#8220;overthrow the carpetbag government&#8221; and that afterward the Yankees &#8220;recognized white supremacy in the South and gave us our state.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Come 1989, the monument was removed due to construction on Canal Street, which made civic leaders and most civilians very happy, but modern-day supporters of the White League threatened to sue the city if the monument was not brought back after construction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A compromise wasn\u2019t made until 1993: the monument was brought back and moved to the actual site of the battle, which is now behind a parking lot. It\u2019s so hidden that the only way you can find it is if you read this article and decide to go behind the parking lot yourself. But if you do find it, the inscription from 1932 is now covered with a slab that honors &#8220;those Americans on both sides of the conflict who died,&#8221; and defines the Battle as, &#8220;A conflict of the Past that should teach us lessons for the Future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are two statues and a park in honor of the first official Grand Wizard of the KKK. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After leading his troops to victory against the mostly black group of Union soldiers (who surrendered) at Fort Pillow, instead of taking them as prisoners of war, he <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">directed his troops to slaughter all 300<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The 1864 Fort Pillow Massacre site is now a Tennessee state park.<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The statue has stayed put in Memphis since 1905 and in 1998, Jack Kershaw, the former attorney of Martin Luther King Jr.\u2019s assassin, decided to sculpt a rather interesting 25 foot revival of the statue depicting a wild-eyed Forrest crying, \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Follow me!<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>3-5.\u00a0<\/strong><b>Statues of Alexander Hamilton Stephens of Georgia, John C. Calhoun of South Carolina, and Charles Brantley Aycock of North Carolina at the National Statuary Hall<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Alexander Hamilton Stephens of Georgia (1812-1883)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: When he was Confederate Vice President, one of the famous quotes in his <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cornerstone Address<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that defended the enslavement of African Americans and sparked the Civil War was, &#8220;Our new Government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition.&#8221; After the Civil War, Stephens became critical of the Confederacy and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">met with Abraham Lincoln to discuss peace terms<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<b><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>John C. Calhoun of South Carolina (1782-1850)<\/b>: The seventh Vice President of the United States and notable political theorist\/scholar from Yale University once said when asked about slavery, &#8220;Never before has the black race of Central Africa, from the dawn of history to the present day, attained a condition so civilized and so improved, not only physically, but morally and intellectually.&#8221; Yale University recently dropped his name from one of the residential buildings named after him because \u201che was a critic of the Declaration of Independence.\u201d One of the stained glass windows in the building depicts a black man in shackles kneeling before Calhoun.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Charles Brantley Aycock of North Carolina (1859-1912)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: A strong asset to the history of the Democratic Party and the development of public school systems, dubbing him the nickname of, \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Education Governor<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,\u201d is also known for coining the term \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The negro problem<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,\u201d where he said, &#8220;We have solved the negro problem\u2026We have taken him out of politics and have thereby secured good government under any party and laid foundations for the future development of both races \u2026 Let the negro learn once for all that there is unending separation of the races, that the two peoples may develop side by side to the fullest but that they cannot intermingle; let the white man determine that no man shall by act or thought or speech cross this line, and the race problem will be at an end.&#8221; <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>6-35. There are 29 \u201ccenters,\u201d seven roads (including interchanges), two libraries, two community centers, one telescope, and one bridge dedicated to Robert C. Byrd<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The longest serving senator in American history who funded many projects and scholarships was also a former \u201cImperial Kleagle\u201d of the KKK who filibustered the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1964 Civil<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rights Act<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The conservative Democrat once wrote to Mississippi Senator Theodore G. Bilbo (in 1944): \u201cI shall never fight in the armed forces with a negro by my side \u2026 Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>36. Benjamin Tillman Statue<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tillman was a former Governor and Senator from South Carolina and the leader of the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Red Shirts<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a pro-segregationist group tied to the Democratic Party who executed black people and publicized it. Tillman\u2019s statue can be found in front of the federal building in Columbia, South Carolina\u2019s capital.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>37. Stephen Foster Statue<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Foster has been dubbed the \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">father of American music<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d for his parlor, minstrel and plantation music. At the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh is <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a statue<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of what appears to be a slave named \u201cOld Black Joe\u201d playing the banjo at the feet of a content, well-dressed Foster. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>38. Edmund Pettus Bridge<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the most significant places during the Civil Rights Movement, the location of the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Selma march<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that became \u201cBloody Sunday\u201d on <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">March 7, 1965 when protesters marching to Montgomery were attacked by police,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was named after a <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">former Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> who fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To date, there are <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">at least 1,500 symbols across the country honoring the Confederacy in public spaces<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Would keeping them around in prominent places like a state Capitol or in the heart of New Orleans be glorifying and legitimizing white supremacy or would they serve as reminders of how far America has come? Is it fair to suggest we should move all this stuff to an American history museum or <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">change the rhetoric on monuments\u2019 placards<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> if this debate is about preserving history? What legacy is to be taught and shared with these monuments? You can give your thoughts in the comments below and watch <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/documentaries\/accidental-courtesy\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Accidental Courtesy<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Independent Lens<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to see how Daryl Davis answers these questions in defense of keeping and collecting Confederate and KKK relics.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The thing about claiming territory and property is that it takes up space, and taking up space literally makes a huge statement; it becomes a platform for discussing who built something there, and why. 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