The Montgomery-based Southern Poverty Law Center has released new data as part of its ‘Whose Heritage’ report, which tracks public symbols of the Confederacy across the U.S.
For 2022, the SPLC found that a total of 48 Confederate symbols were either removed, renamed or relocated from public spaces, including 16 monuments. That was up from the 17 monuments removed in 2021.
“Despite progress in removing Confederate iconography from the American landscape, a critical part of telling the hard history of slavery and racism in this country, Southern states continue to block the removal of Confederate symbols,” said Susan Corke, director of the SPLC’s Intelligence Project. Some other states have accelerated the removal of Confederate symbols from the public square with Virginia leading the charge for the third straight year. It removed 13 symbols in 2022. Louisiana and North Carolina both removed seven, while Texas and New York reduced their public Confederate displays by five each, SPLC stated.shows that, while Confederate symbols are most prevalent in the Deep South, there are a number of displays across the nation, including on the west coast.
Ten of the 47 symbols pending removal are schools that are expected to be renamed, SPLC stated, including one each in Alabama and Georgia and four each in South Carolina and Virginia.
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