MONUMENTS LINGER IN PUBLIC VIEW

摘要

Hours after a statue of Robert E. Lee was removed from a New Orleans traffic circle, the monument found itself in its new home: a hastily built shed in a city maintenance yard that also housed a statue of the Confederate general P. G. T. Beauregard. Around the country, toppled Confederate monuments find themselves in a sort of limbo. Some have been placed in museums or in cemeteries, but others linger in public or private storage facilities, awaiting final destinations. According to data collected by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), no Confederate symbols-flags, monuments, and the names of public places-have been removed from public spaces in the past three years, since the day Dylann Roof walked into a church in Charleston, South Carolina, and murdered nine people, all of them black. Thirty-seven schools have changed their names, many of them in the past two years. Compiled in an update of the SPLC's "Whose Heritage?" report, the figures illustrate an American landscape in flux, as states and cities shed their associations with a legacy defined by slavery.