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"The Georgia chapter of a Confederacy group filed a lawsuit Tuesday against a state park with the largest Confederate monument in the country, arguing officials broke state law by planning an exhibit on ties to slavery, segregation and white supremacy.
in 2020, the Stone Mountain Memorial Association, which oversees Stone Mountain Park, voted in 2021 to relocate Confederate flags and build a “truth-telling” exhibit to reflect the site’s role in the rebirth of the Klu Klux Klan, along with the carving’s segregationist roots. ..."The interpretive themes developed for Stone Mountain will explore how the collective memory created by Southerners in response to the real and imagined threats to the very foundation of Southern society, the institution of slavery, by westward expansion, a destructive war, and eventual military defeat, was fertile ground for the development of the Lost Cause movement amidst the social and economic disruptions that followed," the exhibit proposal says.
Other parts of the exhibit would address how the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Sons of Confederate Veterans perpetuated the “Lost Cause” ideology through support for monuments, education programs and racial segregation laws across the South. It would also tell stories of a small Black community that lived near the mountain after the war."
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Oddly, this AP article does not cite the law the Confederate group is using to challenge this change. Found it buried in this article:
"Much of this memorial is protected by old Georgia law, which states that the memorial must be maintained as "an appropriate and suitable memorial for the Confederacy.""
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Its an odd situation. Slavery was their self-professed cornerstone, but the feel it's representation here isn't a suitable and appropriate memorial.
Slavery would have to shown as a positive good, but I don't think anyone's buying that anymore.
in 2020, the Stone Mountain Memorial Association, which oversees Stone Mountain Park, voted in 2021 to relocate Confederate flags and build a “truth-telling” exhibit to reflect the site’s role in the rebirth of the Klu Klux Klan, along with the carving’s segregationist roots. ..."The interpretive themes developed for Stone Mountain will explore how the collective memory created by Southerners in response to the real and imagined threats to the very foundation of Southern society, the institution of slavery, by westward expansion, a destructive war, and eventual military defeat, was fertile ground for the development of the Lost Cause movement amidst the social and economic disruptions that followed," the exhibit proposal says.
Other parts of the exhibit would address how the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Sons of Confederate Veterans perpetuated the “Lost Cause” ideology through support for monuments, education programs and racial segregation laws across the South. It would also tell stories of a small Black community that lived near the mountain after the war."
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Oddly, this AP article does not cite the law the Confederate group is using to challenge this change. Found it buried in this article:
"Much of this memorial is protected by old Georgia law, which states that the memorial must be maintained as "an appropriate and suitable memorial for the Confederacy.""
Link
Its an odd situation. Slavery was their self-professed cornerstone, but the feel it's representation here isn't a suitable and appropriate memorial.
Slavery would have to shown as a positive good, but I don't think anyone's buying that anymore.