A new exhibit wants to tell a broader story about Stone Mountain. A Confederate group is suing to stop it
A new exhibit wants to tell a broader story about Stone Mountain. A Confederate group is suing to stop it
A group for descendants of Confederate Civil War veterans is suing to stop an exhibit at Georgia’s Stone Mountain Park focused on the site’s connections to white supremacy, slavery and […]
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It's interesting because the new exhibit is about the history of the park, rather than the Confederates.
In 2021, the Stone Mountain Memorial Association, a governor-appointed commission that oversees the park, agreed to move prominent Confederate flags and install an exhibit about the park’s origins and history, including Ku Klux Klan cross-burnings that happened at the site over the years. Allen-Clausell thinks that context will go a long way.
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The drive for a Confederate memorial on Stone Mountain dates to the early 20th century, when Civil War monuments were going up in public places around the country. The effort for one at Stone Mountain gained traction when the KKK relaunched during a mountaintop ceremony on Thanksgiving night 1915, inspired by the film “Birth of a Nation,” which glorified the Reconstruction-era Klan.