![]() Many of these monuments are protected by state laws in the former Confederate states. In this updated edition of the 2016 report Whose Heritage?, the SPLC identifies 114 Confederate symbols that have been removed since the Charleston attack - and 1,747 that still stand. Yet, today, the vast majority of these emblems remain in place. The 2015 massacre of nine African Americans at the historic “Mother Emanuel” church in Charleston, South Carolina, sparked a nationwide movement to remove Confederate monuments, flags and other symbols from the public square, and to rename schools, parks, roads and other public works that pay homage to the Confederacy. ![]() Learn more about how communities are dismantling a whitewashed history of the Confederacy and sparking a reckoning with the truth about its cruel legacy by listening to the SPLC’s podcast, Sounds Like Hate. That data is available to download for research and exploration. It’s past time for the South – and the rest of the nation – to bury the myth of the Lost Cause once and for all.Īs of February 1, 2019, the data set, map, and online report are up to date as reported to and vetted by the SPLC. Our public entities should no longer play a role in distorting history by honoring a secessionist government that waged war against the United States to preserve white supremacy and the enslavement of millions of people. The Confederacy, as former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu has said, was on the wrong side of humanity.
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