‘Silent Sam’: A racist Jim Crow-era speech inspired the toppling of a Confederate monument

Posted Aug 25, 2018
In 1913, Julian Carr, a prominent industrialist and supporter of the Ku Klux Klan, was invited to speak at the unveiling of a statue of a Confederate soldier on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It had been placed there by the Daughters of the Confederacy. Carr’s lengthy address made clear the symbolism of the statue. (Washington Post)

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