![]() ![]() The Hollywood memorial was not the only one of its kind in California. If only fleetingly, California played an important part in this reckoning with Civil War memory and the legacies of American slavery. In the weeks that followed, numerous Confederate monuments across the country came down. Lee and ended in the murder of one of the counterprotesters-sparked a national backlash against Confederate iconography and the history it represents. That rally-which began with a tiki-torch-lit vigil around a statue of Confederate general Robert E. And it remained the most significant Confederate marker in California until it was removed from the cemetery grounds in the wake of the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017. ![]() ![]() It was the first of its kind anywhere in the Far West. The United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) erected the monument in 1925 to honor their rebel ancestors, buried in the surrounding cemetery plot. Visitors to Hollywood Forever Cemetery today could easily pass over the spot without realizing that, for the better part a century, this quiet corner of Los Angeles housed a six-foot granite tribute to the dead soldiers of the Confederacy. ![]() Where the monument once stood, only a gentle divot in the earth remains. This essay was originally published in California History, Vol 97, No. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |