Reconstruction Era | Counter Narratives | 7
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The Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s
Some of these Confederate monuments that still stand today were erected in the late 19th and 20th century During the rise of the Jim Crow era of segregation. They informed the public narrative about the Confederacy and what the Civil War was supposedly fought for. How do you think this loss caused narrative that these monuments supported informed the civil rights movement that emerged in the 1960s? Well, I think that African Americans in a civil rights movement are still really fighting against some of those narratives, right?
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