All of those statues were put up in the 50s to protest civil rights.
Not all of them. The first wave was 1890s-WW1, when the Confederate veterans were getting old and gray and nostalgic.
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Largely by the "the political at all" Daughters of the Confederacy. In the name of reconciliating Northern White Supremacists and Southern Neo-Confederate White Supremacists.
