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Karen L. Cox

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Walter Barnes and His Royal Creolians, a popular jazz orchestra from Chicago.

Rhythm Night Club Fire: Tragedy Devastated Young Black Natchez

In April 1940, Walter Barnes and His Royal Creolians continued to play to calm the crowd as the Natchez Rhythm Night Club burned.
by Karen L. Cox via Mississippi Free Press on April 21, 2023
Tuskegee history professor Frank Toland speaks to the gathered students at the base of the Confederate monument. (Photo by Jim Peppler; courtesy Alabama Department of Archives and History)

Black Protesters Have Been Rallying Against Confederate Statues for Generations

When Tuskegee student Sammy Younge, Jr., was murdered in 1966, his classmates focused their righteous anger on a local monument.
by Karen L. Cox via Smithsonian on April 12, 2021
Robert E. Lee Monument in Richmond, Virginia.

Why Honor Them?

In the decades after the Civil War, Black Americans warned of the dangers of Confederate monuments.
by Karen L. Cox via Lapham’s Quarterly on April 12, 2021
Robert E. Lee Memorial covered in graffiti and projections and surrounded by protesters.

The Racism of Confederate Monuments Extends to Voter Suppression

GOP-led state legislatures have not only prevented voters from exercising their rights as citizens, they have usurped local control to remove monuments legally.
by Karen L. Cox via Karen L. Cox Blog on June 30, 2020

Confederate Monuments Haunt American Democracy

Why Southerners protesting structural racism in the criminal justice system have turned time and again to the monuments in their communities.
by Karen L. Cox via CNN on June 1, 2020

The Grey Gardens of the South

A very real story of southern degradation and decay that made national headlines in the fall of 1932.
by Karen L. Cox via Southern Cultures on January 23, 2020
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