Atlanta will soon add some lessons about the South's racist history on markers placed next to four historic monuments amid the ongoing national debate over Confederate statues.
ATLANTA — Atlanta will soon add some lessons about the South's racist history on markers placed next to four historic monuments amid the ongoing national debate over Confederate statues.In Atlanta's Piedmont Park, the 1911 Peace Monument commemorating post-Civil War reconciliation will get context noting that its inscription promotes a narrative centered on white veterans, while ignoring African Americans.
"This monument should no longer stand as a memorial to white brotherhood; rather, it should be seen as an artifact representing a shared history in which millions of Americans were denied civil and human rights," it states. "It's telling the truth, and it's also giving people an opportunity to have a discussion around facts," Hale said."The goal is to start a community discussion."
A few days after the Charlottesville rally, protesters sprayed red paint on Atlanta's Peace Monument. Statues in other cities have also been vandalized in recent years. "This ignores the segregation and disenfranchisement of African Americans and others that still existed in 1935," the marker states.
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