‘RACIST’ ROADMAP

Use this map to check if there is a ‘racist’ Confederate monument or statue in your town

A RACIST roadmap has revealed where Confederate monuments and statues are located all over the US.

These memorials mark the South's failed bid to keep slavery intact during the Civil War and the pressure to remove them is mounting amid  in .

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's (SPLC) " map reveals the location of these monuments and to whom they are dedicated.

But they weren't solely located in southern areas: they also appeared in and even liberal , according to the map.

Stonewall Jackson in the was dedicated by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1957 before it was removed in 2017.

Although this year was decades after the bloody waged on American soil, it was in the middle of the Civil Rights Movement.

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's first “Grand Wizard" – is still in Nashville, even though it was only erected in 1975.

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noted that the list isn't fully updated: for example, the statue of in Richmond, Virginia, is still listed as "active" even though protesters removed the century-old monument.

Davis' monument was installed a whopping 50 years after the battle in 1986.

There is on the   site which allows viewers to update the status of these statues, which may come in handy as demands for their removal increase from protesters and politicians alike.

, 114 Confederate symbols have been taken down.

The movement gained steam in 2017 following  in Charlottesville, , and have surged again following the death of Floyd, a black man who was killed by a white cop.

There are 1,747 Confederate monuments or symbols that still stand around the US, according to the organization and Virginia is home to 110 of them – 13 of which are in Richmond.

Earlier this month,  Gov Ralph Northam on Thursday  in Richmond.

Days after Northam's announcement, a self-admitted Ku Klux Klan leader and alleged Confederate ideologist  protesting near the monument.

A majority of America's Confederate statues were built between the 1900s and 1920s and again in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Both periods were times of extreme racial tension - in the early 1900s, states were enacting Jim Crow laws to disenfranchise black Americans, while the civil rights movement of the early 1960s pushed back against racial discrimination.

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Many southerners claim Confederate monuments are a representation of their history and were erected to honor Civil War heroes.

But experts believe the monuments were built to send a message promoting white supremacy.

Americans are calling for the removal of Confederate monuments amid unrest caused by the death of George FloydCredit: AP:Associated Press
Several cities began taking down statues after the 2015 Charleston church shooting that killed nine black parishioners in South CarolinaCredit: AP:Associated Press
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Momentum picked up after protester Heather Heyer was killed in 2017 during a white nationalist rally in VirginiaCredit: EPA
Edward Colston was a 17th-century slave trader who was involved in transporting more than 150,000 men, women, and children across the Atlantic oceanCredit: SWNS:South West News Service
Protesters at a Black Lives Matter rally in Bristol, England toppled the statue in the city centerCredit: SWNS:South West News Service
Demonstrators tied up the statue with rope after knocking it downCredit: SWNS:South West News Service
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