In Reckoning With Confederate Monuments, Other Countries Could Provide Examples
The U.S. isn't alone in confronting sites dedicated to contentious, and often troubling, moments in its history.
Last year, the Southern Poverty Law Center conducted a study on public symbols of the Confederacy. The center found more than 700 Confederate monuments on public land in the U.S. – with nearly 300 the states of Georgia, Virginia, and North Carolina alone.
Around the country, a fresh push is on to remove Confederate statues, the great majority of which were erected well after the Civil War.
A protest linked to the proposed removal of a Robert E. Lee statue in Charlottesville became a scene of violence, and officials elsewhere are moving swiftly to remove statues,, , , , and have already been taken down.
