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Confederate monuments: What the men honored by statues did and believed
This story is part of The Confederate Reckoning, a collaborative project of USA TODAY Network newsrooms across the South to examine the legacy of the Confederacy and its influence on systemic racism today.
The white men stand, immortalized in metal and stone, in parks, public squares and the halls of government.
Statues of prominent figures in the Confederacy are a common sight in the South.
But the visibility of their monuments often belie the way their lives and legacies are obscured by myth.
Like other symbols of the Confederacy, such memorials have been defended for generations as pieces of Southern heritage, or simply uncontroversial artifacts of history.
But for many people, they are ever-present reminders of racial discrimination and violent oppression that has never gone away.
The removal of statues of Confederate leaders — as well as those of others who promoted or profited from slavery and racis