Tellingly, most of these monuments were erected several decades after the Civil War. There was a significant spike in monument construction from 1900 to the 1920s and a second explosion of Confederate flags and iconography from the 1950s to the 1960s.8 These periods coincided with intense seasons of racial conflict in the Jim Crow era. Fitzhugh Brundage, a historian of lynching and the Jim Crow era, writes, “The installation of the 1,000-plus memorials across the US was the result of the orchestrated efforts of white Southerners and a few northerners with clear political objectives: They
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