Names and flags acquire been removed from statehouses and street signs across the US,but at the stone-etched Georgia monument, no one is able to claim victoryExactly a century ago this holiday weekend, or more than a dozen men climbed to the top of a mountain external Atlanta,pulled on white hoods and lit a 16ft, kerosene-soaked wooden cross. It marked the rebirth of Ku Klux Klan, and Stone Mountain became the Klan’s spiritual home.
The next year,work started on an huge relief carving – the largest in the world – to commemorate the heroes of the Confederacy. Since then the rock has stood like a historical door stop, an 825ft reminder of the Lost Cause. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com