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It was 1898, and John Henry James was on a train headed toward certain death. The Black ice cream vendor had been falsely accused of raping a White woman, arrested and taken to a neighboring town to avoid a lynch mob. But the next morning, authorities put him on a train back to Charlottesville, where he was to be indicted at the Albemarle County Courthouse. He never made it; an angry crowd pulled him from the train outside of town and lynched him.
Within a few years, a Confederate monument nicknamed Johnny Reb went up at that same courthouse, along with some old Confederate cannons. Then came a statue of Stonewall Jackson next door, and two blocks away, a monument to Robert E. Lee.
The fact that Jamess lynching and the erection of the memorials took place in the same era and the same area is not a coincidence, according to a report from the University of Virginia published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It found that in formerly Confederate states, counties with more Confederate memorials also had more lynchings.
This provides compelling evidence that these symbols are associated with hate and racism, and not more innocuous things like heritage or Southern pride, the studys authors concluded.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/10/13/confederate-monuments-lynchings-report-virginia/
OAITW r.2.0
(24,449 posts)Would have guessed that without a scientific survey.
Igel
(35,296 posts)How many Confederate monuments would you expect in Vermont?
How many lynchings?
Even with my paltry knowledge of statistics, I know what a confound is.
I'd expect confederates states to have lynched more people--whether white or black--than Vermont, on a per capita basis. Or NY, ME, NH, PA, NJ, even MD.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)SCantiGOP
(13,869 posts)Completely inevitable.
Captain Obvious wrote the headline.
elleng
(130,861 posts)sakabatou
(42,146 posts)czarjak
(11,266 posts)Straw Man
(6,622 posts)The statues were part of a concerted effort to terrorize and oppress the black population.
moondust
(19,972 posts)I don't know if there was a realistic alternative but IMO President Ulysses S. Grant and others made a mistake in agreeing to the Compromise of 1877 that removed federal troops from the South.
Some black Republicans felt betrayed as they lost their power in the South that had been propped up by the federal military, and by 1905 most blacks were effectively disenfranchised by the now-democratically elected state legislatures in every Southern state (Southern Democrats).
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There are no public monuments to Hitler or Göring in Berlin/Germany. The large numbers of Allied troops that occupied Germany for nearly half a century would never have allowed it.
marble falls
(57,073 posts)Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)was to end Reconstruvtion before 2 to 3 full generations had passed. We've had to endure Confederate residue ever since.
struggle4progress
(118,274 posts)2. "We got scared somebody might try to keep us from beating, raping, and killing black folk"
3. "We started a war to make sure nobody could keep us from beating, raping, and killing black folk"
4. "We lost the war"
5. "We put up lots of monuments to the people who fought in the war we lost to make sure nobody could keep us from beating, raping, and killing black folk"
6. "It'sjust a coinky-dink that black folk got beaten, raped, and killed near these monuments celebrating our glorious history"
UTUSN
(70,676 posts)Skittles
(153,142 posts)not fucking hard to figure out