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Description: Nathan Bedford Forrest monument

TitleNathan Bedford Forrest monument

Creator nameSpaulding, Paul D.

Creator name (description)Photo by Dell Upton

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator roleSculptor

Creation date2000

Object typeSculpture

MaterialsBronze

LocationSelma, Alabama

SubjectsSoldiers' monuments--Southern StatesArt--Political aspectsFlags--Confederate States of AmericaBustsPublic sculpture

StatusMemorial was stolen in 2012 and never recovered

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Chapter 1: Dual Heritage

Dell Upton

Description: What Can and Can’t Be Said: Race, Uplift, and Monument Building in the...

What Can and Can’t Be Said: Race, Uplift, and Monument Building in the Contemporary South

One morning in November 2007 residents of Montgomery, Alabama, awoke to discover that the century-old Confederate Memorial Monument adjacent to the state capitol had been defaced. “N.T. 11 11 31” was spray-painted across one of the original inscriptions, and the hands and...

Author

Dell Upton

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.25-65

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00240.002

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-21060&redirecttoanchor=62650

Chapter subject tags:Soldiers' monuments--Southern StatesRacismMartin Luther King, Jr., DayWhite supremacy movements--United StatesNational Association for the Advancement of Colored PeopleSlavery--History

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