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riversedge

(70,221 posts) Sun Aug 20, 2017, 04:43 PM Aug 2017

2 spikes in Confederate monument construction: implementation of Jim Crow & civil rights movement...

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The 2 spikes in Confederate monument construction: the implementation of Jim Crow, & the civil rights movement.

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2 spikes in Confederate monument construction: implementation of Jim Crow & civil rights movement... (Original Post) riversedge Aug 2017 OP

I saw a lot of people trash Joy Reid for bringing up the spike during civil rights era.... bettyellen Aug 2017 #1

Juxtaposition, the spikes happen at 50 and 100 years after the Civil war Brother Buzz Aug 2017 #2

Your time lines are askew Lithos Aug 2017 #3

bettyellen

(47,209 posts)

1. I saw a lot of people trash Joy Reid for bringing up the spike during civil rights era....

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Sun Aug 20, 2017, 04:45 PM

Aug 2017

But she was right, it just was not the biggest spike- but it is a more shocking one to my eyes.

Brother Buzz

(36,434 posts)

2. Juxtaposition, the spikes happen at 50 and 100 years after the Civil war

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Sun Aug 20, 2017, 04:46 PM

Aug 2017

Lithos

(26,403 posts)

3. Your time lines are askew

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Sun Aug 20, 2017, 05:11 PM

Aug 2017

Jim Crow laws were enacted right after reconstruction - around 1870 and precede the memorial building. The first spike for memorials (1890-1910) were when the majority of veterans were dying off, apx .30-50 years later and continued until the deaths of their children in the 1920s.

The spike in the 1960's was ostensibly a 100 year remembrance, but many were also fueled by pro-segregation reactions.

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