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The Racial Politics of Demobilizing USCT Regiments

On April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee (commander of the Confederate States Army) formally surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant (commander

“You know, they straightened out the Mississippi River in places, to make room for houses and livable acreage. Occasionally the

Judge Timothy Walmsley’s recent ruling that the Confederate flag on defendant Travis McMichael’s truck is admissible in Ahmaud Arbery’s murder

While commentators often point to 2015 (after the Mother Emmanuel shooting) or 2017 (after the Charlottesville terrorist attack) as the

Confederate monuments are toppling across the nation following the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and other African Americans.