Cox is an award-winning historian and a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians. Ticket includes a meal from our friends at Mert’s Heart & Soul. Registration for this program is $15 for non-members and $10 for members. Lee more than 130 years after it was installed in Richmond.Ĭonflicts about these memorials have raged for well over a century–but they’ve never been as intense as they are today.įind your copy of No Common Ground HERE, and come ready with your questions for Dr. Meanwhile, on September 8, 2021, Virginia removed the twelve-ton statue of Confederate Gen. Here in Charlotte, the Legacy Commission has worked towards changes to streets named for Confederate veterans, slaveholders, and white supremacists, and nostalgic antebellum ideas. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to preserve the statues, legal battles to remove them, and rowdy crowds taking matters into their own hands.

When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground.

Karen Cox about her book, No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice, and related work. Willie Griffin sits down for a conversation with Dr. Timely, accessible, and essential, No Common Ground is the story of the seemingly invincible stone sentinels that are just beginning to fall from their pedestals.Join us, in-person, as Dr.

Monument defenders responded with gerrymandering and heritage laws intended to block efforts to remove these statues, but hard as they worked to preserve the Lost Cause vision of southern history, civil rights activists, Black elected officials, and movements of ordinary people fought harder to take the story back. She lucidly shows the forces that drove white southerners to construct beacons of white supremacy, as well as the ways that antimonument sentiment, largely stifled during the Jim Crow era, returned with the civil rights movement and gathered momentum in the decades after the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Cox depicts what these statues meant to those who erected them and how a movement arose to force a reckoning. In this eye-opening narrative of the efforts to raise, preserve, protest, and remove Confederate monuments, Karen L. These conflicts have raged for well over a century-but they've never been as intense as they are today.

No Common Ground by Karen L. Cox