Georgia law prohibits removing these Confederate monuments. So Atlanta will install markers next to Confederate monuments to give context to the painful history they represent.
The first of the markers, funded by the Atlanta History Center, will be installed as early as Friday at the Peace Monument in Piedmont Park. A committee says it promotes the"Lost Cause" mythology, which portrays the Confederacy nobly by suggesting it was state's rights, not slavery, that prompted secession and the Civil War. The Peace Monument, for example, honors Confederate veterans while omitting the experiences of enslaved African Americans.
By adding contextual markers, communities can counter the Lost Cause, which became widely recognized as former Confederates tried to rationalize and cope with their defeat. The Lion of the Confederacy, or The Lion of Atlanta, at Oakland Cemetery."This was passed down from generation to generation," Hale said,"with amazing ability for people to take on the narrative and directly contradict what happened, and it continues to this day.
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