“I’m gonna tell you one thing, I ain’t sitting down; this’ll just make me walk taller.”
It took 20 years to raise the money for the monument, which was finished in 1915.
Finally, a movement conservative with a spine.
Southerners defend their symbols.
“Which African-American wants to have a picnic in the shadow of Nathan Bedford Forrest?”
No more battle flags at Fort Sumter, Gettysburg, and Vicksburg.
“Fuck the Confederacy. Black lives matter.”
Another step in the clampdown.
Sam Francis saw it all coming.
Monument was dedicated in 1907 before a crowd of 100,000.