Florida Pro-Confederate Group Doxxes 113 Civil Rights Activists in Detailed Online Report

Save Southern Heritage is a national network committed to keeping monuments to the pro-slavery South alive and gleaming across the nation. At least one member of the group from Virginia attended last weekend's Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, where mobs of white nationalists beat people with sticks and drove a car into dozens of peaceful counterprotesters.

But in Florida, it turns out the same group has been frightening and intimidating civil rights activists for the past few months. New Times has obtained a copy of a dossier the group put together earlier this year that lists the faces and names of dozens of activists, mostly from Hillsborough and Broward Counties. The dossier includes detailed personal information about 113 people who have fought to remove Confederate monuments.

"It’s harassing people," says Carlos Valnera, a Broward County resident who has worked to rename Confederate streets in Hollywood. "We're extremely concerned. This shouldn’t be happening in South Florida. It shouldn’t be happening anywhere."

The memo specifically targets the 113 people who spoke in favor of removing a Confederate statue in Tampa at a July 19 meeting of the Hillsborough County Commission, including two elected officials. The dossier also includes a spreadsheet of activists' home addresses, phone numbers, and brief descriptors. Several activists are described simply as "Muslim," "LGBT," "anti-Trump," or "resentful black man." In some cases, the dossier also details the people whom activists live with or own a home with. The dossier also includes screenshots of Facebook posts from many of the activists and, in some cases, their arrest history or mug shots.

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