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‘Almost Home’: On Place, Legacy, Growing Up in Atlanta, and Symbols of White Supremacy
The largest confederate memorial in America is carved out of rock in Stone Mountain, Georgia. The site is linked to many Klu Klux Klan gatherings and the state of Georgia s resistance to the Civil Rights movement in the 50s and 60s. (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)
In “Almost Home,” an essay at the
Los Angeles Review of Books, Pete Candler reflects on growing up in Atlanta, and the symbols of white supremacy in his hometown.
It certainly never occurred to me then that the Ku Klux Klan during its second wind from 1915 to the mid-1920s was reborn not in the hinterlands of Atlanta but at its posh and manicured heart: not in Stone Mountain but in Buckhead. My neighborhood.