Harvey Gantt, former Charlotte mayor, he was a member of Charlotte City Council when a Confederate monument was erected at the old City Hall in 1977 ( minutes from the 1977 city council meeting in which Gantt spoke out against the monument. Karen Cox, professor of history at UNC Charlotte and author of ' No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice' Cox, a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, is the author of the forthcoming book No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for. preserve, protest, and remove Confederate monuments, Karen L. This conversation originally aired April 15, 2021.ĭr. When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Plus, we hear from former Charlotte Mayor Harvey Gantt about a scuffle over a Confederate monument in Charlotte when he was a member of City Council in 1977. She joins guest host Erik Spanberg to explain. In her book, she digs into the historical context behind the monuments, which she says is essential to understanding their meaning. Karen Cox says there is 'no common ground' when it comes to these monuments. We’re still debating why the Civil War was fought - and now, what to do with the Confederate monuments that honor the losing side. How we remember that history has a direct connection to all of it. In her essential new book, No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice, historian Karen Cox, a professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Still, many of today’s conflicts can be traced back to that tumultuous time in American history.

It’s been 160 years since the beginning of the Civil War.

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