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Confederate Monuments Deserve to Go
Taking them down and putting up different statues is a reminder that in understanding the past, we shape the future.
Steve Chapman | July 2, 2017
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In 1871, the city of Richmond, Virginia, publicly celebrated the Fourth of July. It was an unfamiliar experience. There had been no general commemoration of Independence Day since 1860—before Virginia had seceded from the nation that was formed in 1776.
Other Southern cities were not ready to resume participation in our national ritual. Cheraw became the first place in post-Civil War South Carolina to do so, in 1891. Jackson, Mississippi, waited until 1901 to hold a reading of the Declaration of Independence on the occasion. Vicksburg, Mississippi, didn't join the party until 1945.
More: http://reason.com/archives/2017/07/02/confederate-monuments-deserve-to-go
Taking them down and putting up different statues is a reminder that in understanding the past, we shape the future.
Steve Chapman | July 2, 2017
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In 1871, the city of Richmond, Virginia, publicly celebrated the Fourth of July. It was an unfamiliar experience. There had been no general commemoration of Independence Day since 1860—before Virginia had seceded from the nation that was formed in 1776.
Other Southern cities were not ready to resume participation in our national ritual. Cheraw became the first place in post-Civil War South Carolina to do so, in 1891. Jackson, Mississippi, waited until 1901 to hold a reading of the Declaration of Independence on the occasion. Vicksburg, Mississippi, didn't join the party until 1945.
More: http://reason.com/archives/2017/07/02/confederate-monuments-deserve-to-go
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