Removal of Confederate monuments and memorials

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More than 160 Confederate monuments and memorials to the Confederate States of America (CSA; the Confederacy) and associated figures have been removed from public spaces in the United States, all but three of them since 2015. Some have been removed by state and local governments; others have been torn down by protestors. Over seven hundred monuments and memorials have been created on public land, the vast majority in the South during the era of Jim Crow laws from 1877 to 1964. Efforts to remove them began after the Charleston church shooting and later increased after the Unite the Right rally and the murder of George Floyd. Most modern historical analyses agree that the monuments largely were not built as memorials or for historical preservation; instead, they were built to intimidate African Americans and reaffirm white supremacy after the Civil War; and that they memorialize an unrecognized, treasonous government, the Confederacy, whose founding principle was the perpetuation and expansion...

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