A way to deal with monuments

BY ROY E. FINKENBINE ON 11/27/17 AT 12:47 PM

... This past May, my colleague, Greg Sumner, and I .. led students .. on an eight-day trip to the landmarks of the southern Civil Rights Movement ...

We encountered contested memory at every turn. Streets named for Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King intersect ones named for Jefferson Davis ...

... In 1917 the United Daughters of the Confederacy recognized the building in which the Klan was founded as an important part of Confederate heritage by placing a plaque there ...

... the well-known Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma ... was named for a Confederate general, Grand Dragon of the Alabama Klan, and U.S. senator who played a major role in the disfranchisement of Alabama blacks ...

http://www.newsweek.com/there-respectful-way-deal-offending-monuments-723471