![]() ![]() “Six quickly went back on view in different public locations, including cemeteries, battlefield sites, and a museum,” Thompson writes. Thompson notes in her new book, “ Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America’s Public Monuments,” the monuments didn’t stay out of sight for long. ![]() ![]() After the murders, officials in states such as Maryland, Missouri, and Louisiana, responding to public outrage, took down eleven monuments to the Confederacy. In the weeks before his massacre, Roof posed for photos at a number of Confederate sites, including a graveyard housing the Confederate dead and the Museum and Library of Confederate History, in Greenville, South Carolina. He was a white supremacist who wished to start a race war, and he saw his actions as part of a distinctly American legacy. On June 17, 2015, Dylann Roof walked into a Bible-study session at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, in Charleston, South Carolina, and opened fire with a handgun, murdering nine Black congregants. ![]()
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