Whose Heritage? Public Symbols of the Confederacy

Grade
9-12
Lesson Duration

From Southern Poverty Law Center

Across the South, communities began taking a critical look at many other symbols honoring the Confederacy and its icons — statues and monuments; city seals; the names of streets, parks and schools; and even official state holidays. There have been more than 100 attempts at the state and local levels to remove the symbols or add features to provide more historical context. Following the Charleston massacre, the Southern Poverty Law Center launched an effort to catalog and map Confederate place names and other symbols in public”

Read the publication: https://www.splcenter.org/20160421/whose-heritage-public-symbols-confederacy#findings

 

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The Southern Poverty Law Center, based in Montgomery, Ala., is a nonprofit civil rights organization founded in 1971 and dedicated to fighting hate and bigotry, and to seeking justice for the most vulnerable members of society.