Aside from issuing a brief statement on the organization’s website in August 2017 and another general statement on December 1, 2018, both of which condemned the actions of those they saw as using Confederate heritage for a hateful cause, the Daughters have remained silent and have refused to give media interviews, even after the vandalism of their headquarters. While some local chapters of the UDC have fought back by filing lawsuits or requesting restraining orders against monument removal in the face of local decisions, on the whole the organization’s silence speaks volumes about how it is now a shell of its former self

Locals had reinterpreted the Lee monument through protest art and it swiftly became a tourist destination, a place to take photos and to see a new kind of history in action

The 1990s witnessed critical changes to the political landscape of the South, as more African Americans were elected to state and local offices.

As the 1980s ushered in the Reagan Revolution and the rise of the New Right, southern communities continued to tangle with the Confederate tradition as black southerners challenged symbols they had long regarded as insulting to their race

The disagreement was one of the first in a series of battles taking place throughout the South over the meaning of Confederate symbols—both monuments and flags—located on city-owned property.

students from Tuskegee Institute marched from campus into town to protest the acquittal of the white man who had murdered their classmate and friend, twenty-one-year-old Sammy Younge Jr.