His killing ignited a simmering movement to redefine the legacies of Confederates and other historic figures -- and statues have dropped like bowling pins since. Tributes to Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson and Jefferson Davis have already fallen. Military bases with Confederate namesakes , such as Fort Benning and Fort Bragg, are in the crosshairs. Vice President John Calhoun's name was stripped from buildings Clemson.
His statue fell in Charleston. Princeton nixed President Woodrow Wilson. In some instances, protesters have pulled the tributes down themselves. To understand the coming conflagration, know the University of Mississippi has been in a state of war over ideas for more than two decades. Its "stick ban" was viewed as a slick way of getting Confederate flags out of football games without irking alumni. UM booted its mascot, Colonel Reb , six years later. It stopped flying the Confederate-themed state flag in It quit playing "Dixie" at games.
The school, too, has rechristened buildings and added "contextualization plaques" to others, some built by slaves. University leaders were more resistant to demands they take down a foot Confederate monument that has stood prominently on campus since , but the statue was relocated this month. Opponents accuse the university of building a shrine to the Lost Cause of the Confederacy. Everywhere else in the country these statues are coming down," UM associate history professor Anne Twitty said.
Thinking back on the struggles she's seen since joining the faculty in , she said, "The battle over Ole Miss will be particularly hot. Last month, Blake Hinson, a guard on UM's basketball team, put the school's ties to the Confederacy in the headlines by transferring to Iowa State. Iowa State would not make Hinson available for an interview. Also last month, the university esports team dropped all references to "Rebels.
The dangerous messaging at play. Jack Carey received his master's and doctorate at the university. He devoted a section of his dissertation to "the invention of Ole Miss" and is writing a book, "Jim Crow U. The story of Ole Miss' origin, he said, is but one example of the school's deliberate efforts to hitch its image to the Old South and Confederacy.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries -- as old Confederates convulsed at the notion of civil rights and crafted Jim Crow laws to strip Black people of rights -- the university covered the campus with Old South iconography , Carey and others say. It's quite a bit to try to explain away or rationalize. Aside from sending an unwelcoming message to more than a third of the state's residents, who are Black -- along with those who feel those residents' lives and feelings matter -- retaining the nickname poses deeper dangers in its messaging, he said:.
And it ignores the brutality, violence and force necessary to maintain slavery. By romanticizing slavery, Carey said, an institution doesn't have to confront it. By fighting to keep its name and other holdovers of the Confederacy, he said, the university sends a strong message to prospective Black students: "Go somewhere else.
Not everyone concurs with Carey. On Facebook and in interviews, many students and alumni -- and some would argue most -- feel the same way the university does about keeping Ole Miss.
Despite their alignment with university leaders, they worry because the school has defended traditions like Colonel Reb and "Dixie" in the past, only to relent under pressure, said Howie Morgan, a graduate and political consultant. Growing up with Southern parents in Vicksburg, "I didn't know what racism was," he said.
A Mississippi fan takes a picture with some dressed up a former mascot, Colonel Reb, in That the Ku Klux Klan and other hatemongers co-opted the flag after the Civil War is just an example of groups stealing symbols, he said: "The Klan also used an American flag. The Nazis also stole a Christian symbol. He frowns on efforts to change Ole Miss or Rebels, echoing his alma mater's assertion that they've taken on new meanings.
Those who fought for suffrage and to end child labor were rebels, he said. He worries outside pressure is pushing administrators to "change from a niche market into a more bland university so we would blend in with all the other universities across the United States. For senior Lauren Moses, a columnist for the school paper, the controversial symbols, along with Ole Miss and Rebels, are not honors. Art History, Criticism and Conservation.
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