New Democratic majority set to bring down Confederate statues in Virginia

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12. The only US history that gets erased is minority history

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They put these status up during racist times.

There are certain moments in US history when Confederate monuments go up

The first spike
The first spike is around 1900. That's 35 years after the end of the Civil War.

When the war ended, relatively few monuments went up in the South. The economy and social order were just too devastated. But after money was raised, sponsoring groups promoted the "Lost Cause" ideology -- the belief that states' rights, not slavery, was the Confederacy's principal cause.

By 1900, many states were implementing Jim Crow laws, meant to disenfranchise newly freed African-Americans and prevent integration.

It's in this climate that cities and states ramped up their construction of Confederate symbols.

The second spike
The second, albeit smaller, spike is in the mid-1950s and 1960s. Change was in the air. Brown v. Board of Education. The Civil Rights Act. The Voting Rights Act. As the SPLC put it in its report, "The civil rights movement led to a backlash among segregationists."

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2017/08/16/us/confederate-monuments-backlash-chart-trnd/index.html