"False Image of History" Perspectives on Confederate Commemoration from the Black Press
  • Introduction
  • Essays
  • Further reading
  • About

  • Monuments to "Mammies" and "Faithful Slaves"

  • "We Are Pushing Forward to a Larger Freedom": Harper's Ferry Monument to "Loyal Negroes"
  • "Fear the Greeks, Though Bearing Gifts": Efforts to Build a National "Mammy" Monument in D.C.

  • Newspapers, Cities, and Individual Authors

  • No Churches for Judas and Pilate: Richard B. Martin on the 1960 Jefferson Davis Postage Stamp Proposal
  • "The Foremost Apostle of Slavery": J.A. Rogers on the 1937 Lee Stamps
  • "Suppose You Really Knew Your Story?": Roscoe Simmons, Evocative Critic of Confederate Commemoration
  • "The Memory of the Damnable Days of the Past": Black Journalists in Seattle Attack Confederate Commemoration from the Pacific Northwest
  • "Nothing Quite So Dead as an Idea Tried and Found Wanting": Criticisms of Confederate Commemoration from the Twin Cities
  • Early Commentary on Confederate Commemoration
  • Numbers and News Briefs in Kansas’ Black Press
  • “A Table of Brass Will Last”: Complex Views from the Colorado Statesman
  • “KEEP YOUR EYES ON THOSE CONFEDERATE FLAGS!”: The Baltimore Afro-American as Critic of Confederate Commemoration
  • “Roost Right on the Ankles of Congress”: The Dallas Express and Confederate Commemoration
  • “Safe in the Custody of His Late Master”: The New Jersey Sentinel Connects White Supremacism and Confederate Commemoration
  • “The Cause of a Defeated Man”: Relics and Shrines of Jefferson Davis
  • “The Women Keep Alive Our Differences”: The Omaha Guide’s View of Southern Ladies’ Memorial Associations

  • Monuments and Locations

  • Cross-Burning in New Orleans near Davis Monument
  • "The Weakness of Human Judgement": The Jefferson Davis Monument in Kentucky
  • "Never Underestimate the Power of Symbols": The Jefferson Davis Highway in Washington State
  • Grasping at Will-o'-Wisps at West Point
  • The Rise and Fall of "Silent Sam"
  • "A Symbol of Enslavement and Secession": The Winston-Salem Monument to Confederate Dead

  • Flag Politics

  • "Fear Is What This Story Is All About": Confederate Flag Controversy at Ole Miss
  • "An Insult to the South": DJ Feud of 1956
  • "Change the Symbol That Churns up Hate": The Georgia State Flag Controversy
  • "A Symbol of Injustice": Removing the Confederate Flag at the South Carolina Statehouse
  • "And Other Tunes Dear to the Hearts of Racists": Playing "Dixie"
  • "The Same Degree of Patriotism and Fierceness as One Protests and Rejects the Nazi Swastika": Auto-Tags in Spotsylvania County, Virginia
  • "The First Seeds of Treason Towards Another Civil War": Criticism of Confederate Flags
  • "Push America Back from the Brink of Senseless Tribalism": The NAACP Response to the Confederate Battle Flag at the South Carolina Capitol
  • Comparing Malcolm X and Confederate Battle Flags: Carver High School Controversy
  • “Crush that Nostalgic Yearning for the Lost White Cause”: The Campaign to Revise the Mississippi State Flag
  • “Equivalent to Flying the Flag of Adolf Hitler Over Israel”: The Confederate Battle Flag Atop Alabama’s Capitol
  • “Symbols of Racial Inequality”: The Carolina Times Covers Flag Controversies in the Late Civil Rights Era

  • Statuary Hall in the Capitol

  • "Cold Marble Can Proclaim Its Cause": The Alexander Stephens Statue in the Capitol
  • "The Arch Traitor": Jefferson Davis at the Capitol
  • "Glorifying Our Worst Enemies": The Lee Statue in the Capitol

  • Stone Mountain and the Klan

  • Black Journalists Note the Klan's Hatred for Other Groups
  • "Bigoted Bed-Sheeters": Fiery Crosses Symbolize a Revival on Stone Mountain
  • "Hitlerian Disease": Taking the Fight against the Klan to Stone Mountain
  • Black Journalists Challenge Klan Claims to Be a "Local" Organization
  • "The South Believes in Human Slavery": Black Journalists Criticize Stone Mountain Confederate Monument
  • Stone Mountain and the Resurrection of the Klan

  • Monument Avenue in Richmond

  • "I Don't Think the Confederate Heroes Have a Sacred Place on Monument Avenue": The Arthur Ashe Statue in Richmond
  • "Forging Heavier Chains with Which to Be Bound": The Lee Statue on Monument Avenue
  • Black Journalists Uninterested in the Davis Monument on Monument Avenue