1963. That was the year Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech, Medgar Evers was assassinated, the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church was bombed, and President Kennedy sent the national guard to force the desegregation of the University of Alabama. If you were erecting Civil War tributes in 1963, it wasn’t because you were a passionate US history buff torn between commissioning a statue of James Madison or Stonewall Jackson.
