Karen L. Cox

In April 1940, Walter Barnes and His Royal Creolians continued to play to calm the crowd as the Natchez Rhythm Night Club burned.

When Tuskegee student Sammy Younge, Jr., was murdered in 1966, his classmates focused their righteous anger on a local monument.

In the decades after the Civil War, Black Americans warned of the dangers of Confederate monuments.

GOP-led state legislatures have not only prevented voters from exercising their rights as citizens, they have usurped local control to remove monuments legally.

Why Southerners protesting structural racism in the criminal justice system have turned time and again to the monuments in their communities.

A very real story of southern degradation and decay that made national headlines in the fall of 1932.