Find Confederate Monuments in Your Area With This New Tool
The deadly violence over the weekend in Charlottesville initially began with a protest by the White Supremacists Unite Right over the removal of a statue of Robert Lee to a public park. Since then, Donald Trump has been busy defending the statue (and comparing confederate generals to George Washington ), while officials and activists in some cities rushed to demolish public displays of the confederation. Activists toppled a Confederate soldier monument in North Carolina , Baltimore’s mayor ordered the urgent removal of the city’s four remaining Confederate monuments, and New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a 90-day plan to remove the city’s “hate symbols.” “
One takeaway from all this: even in liberal northern cities, there are many more confederate memorials than you think. To help citizens keep track of monuments in their own cities, Quartz has created a tool that lets you search for confederate monuments in the United States by zip code. (Data taken from the 2015 South Legal Center Confederation Monuments List.)
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Click here to find out which monuments still stand near you and lobby local politicians accordingly. Yes, and if they do demolish these statues, CityLab has a few ideas on how to redecorate this space.