If you think *existing* Confederate monuments are bad, here's one the didn't get built. [View all]

[Odoreida]

When White Women Wanted a Monument to Black ‘Mammies’ (NY Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/06/opinion/sunday/confederate-monuments-mammy.html

In 1923, a group of white women wanted to build what they called a “monument to the faithful colored mammies” in Washington. These women, members of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, pressed lawmakers in Congress to introduce a bill. The Senate passed it, but the bill stalled in the House after fierce opposition from black women, including Mary Church Terrell and Hallie Quinn Brown, members of the National Association of Colored Women.

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