Mississippi had fifty-two Confederate monuments but two civil rights memorials in 2001

Evidence

When the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum was first conceived in 2001, for example, there were only two modest memorials related to the civil rights movement in the state: an eternal flame in Meridian on the grave of James Cheney, one of three American civil rights workers who were murdered in 1964, and a statue in Jackson of Medgar Evers—compared with fifty-two public monuments to the Confederacy. — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long, 560

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Confederate monuments physically enshrined the lie that black people were unfit for freedom — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America…, 258

Broader Connections

• Confederate monuments physically enshrined the lie that black people were unfit for freedom #exemplifies (0.85) — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again, 258