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Cigar Factory Strike: Celebrating Southern heritage — not the Confederacy
Since 1994, several Southern states each year have observed “Confederate Heritage Month” in April. From the first shots at Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, to Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s surrender on April 9, 1865, Confederate leaders stated explicitly and repeatedly that they fought to protect slavery and to further white supremacy. That is…
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Protected: The Trump Cabinet’s War on Our Rights
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Whose Heritage?
Since 2022, the year of the third edition of this report, progress in the number of Confederate memorials removed or renamed has slowed, but it has not stopped. The work continues. This fourth installment of SPLC’s Whose Heritage? report offers an evolving assessment of thethreats and harms that find continued life through Confederate symbols, “Lost…
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Whose Heritage? Community Action Guide
Across the South, Americans of all races, ethnicities and creeds are asking why governmental bodies in a democracy based on the promise of equality should display symbols so closely associated with the bondage and oppression of African Americans.
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Part III: New Forms of Public Memory
Our Heritage Lost Cause mythology holds that Confederate symbols do not represent white supremacy or an attempt to rewrite history but instead embody an innocuous preserving of “Southern heritage.” This is not true. Historical evidence reveals that the existence of more than 2,000 Confederate memorials across the country is the result of an organized propaganda…
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Part II: The Contemporary Landscape
The Politics of Civil War Memory At no point during the Civil War did any Confederate symbol come within six miles of the U.S. Capitol. Yet on Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol rioter Kevin Seefried carried a Confederate battle flag right inside. What we think of today as the Confederate flag was one of many flags…
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Part I: Whose Heritage Do Confederate Memorials Represent?
“The Confederacy Is Dead; Long Live the Confederacy!“ In February 1865, two months before the end of the Civil War, the Confederate mayor of Charleston, South Carolina, surrendered. One person who accepted his surrender was William Dupree, Second Lieutenant of the Massachusetts 55th Infantry Regiment — a Black regiment. Imagine the power of an African…
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Whose Heritage? 4th Edition: Director’s Note
There Is Still Room for Truth Depending on your location, you may find that where statues once stood honoring white supremacist Confederate leaders, there are now plaques explaining the truthful, painful history of Black enslavement and subjugation. Or you may still be forced to bear witness to the carved stone faces of, or buildings named…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Yom HaShoah: Remembering the Holocaust and effectively confronting modern hate
Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day — which began at sundown yesterday and ends at nightfall today — is a solemn occasion to reflect on the atrocities committed during the Holocaust, honor the memory of the millions of victims and reaffirm our commitment to combating antisemitism and all forms of systemic discrimination. The Holocaust was the…
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- Ending Unjust Imprisonment
Communities are harmed when local law enforcement engages in immigration enforcement
Image at top: An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer. (Credit: Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)
