Salvaging the dignity of history
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Most people react to the past based on what little bit of history they were taught in school. Or what they have seen in movies.
That’s why when people consider the South they tend to only think of two dates – 1865 and 1965.
Visitors who roll into Montgomery or Selma on tour buses sometimes arrive believing those were the only two time periods to ever pass through the Black Belt.
Both were significant. They both influenced and shaped the nation. They helped permanently define both cities.
Unfortunately, school curriculums can’t easily teach the civil and social progress that have been made as history has evolved.
Stolen Confederate monument will become a toilet unless White Lies Matter demands met, group vows
Gillian Brockell, The Washington Post
April 6, 2021
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The Live Oak Cemetery in Selma, Ala., prominently features a memorials to Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, pictured, and Confederate President Jefferson Davis.Washington Post photo by Jahi Chikwendiu.
A group claiming responsibility for the theft of a Confederate monument in Selma, Ala., laid out ransom terms in emails to local media Monday.
The price for the relic s return? Not cash, but a demand that the headquarters of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in Richmond hang a banner quoting a Black radical on Friday, the 156th anniversary of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee s surrender at the end of the Civil War.
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Victims of lynching in Ohio are listed on a steel box at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama.
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I pause when I get to a block representing Ohio.
Ohio had lynchings? I did not know. I should have known.
It was one of many things I learned on a recent visit to Montgomery , a major destination on the U.S. Civil Rights Trail, and home to the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, which opened in 2018 to recognize more than 4,000 victims of lynchings in the U.S.
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