Perspective: Removing Lost Cause monuments is the first step in dismantling white supremacy
, watched the arrival of the Robert E. Lee monument. “Nowhere in all the procession was there a United States flag,” he wrote. “The rebel yell, reinforced by a glorification of the lost cause was everywhere manifest.
Decades later, Mary Church Terrell, a founder and former president of the National Association of Colored Women , and Hallie Q. Brown then its president, opposed building a monument to “Mammy” on the Mall in Washington, D.C., in 1923. Mammy was one of the most enduring figures of Lost Cause mythology: the loyal female slave.
To Terrell, the indignities suffered by black women would be compounded by a physical manifestation of the cruelty inflicted on enslaved black women.
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