Monument defenders responded with gerrymandering and heritage laws intended to block efforts to remove these statues, but hard as they worked to preserve the Lost Cause vision of southern history, civil rights activists, Black elected officials, and movements of ordinary people fought harder to take the story back. She lucidly shows the forces that drove white southerners to construct beacons of white supremacy, as well as the ways that antimonument sentiment, largely stifled during the Jim Crow era, returned with the civil rights movement and gathered momentum in the decades after the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Cox depicts what these statues meant to those who erected them and how a movement arose to force a reckoning. In this eye-opening narrative of the efforts to raise, preserve, protest, and remove Confederate monuments, Karen L. These conflicts have raged for well over a century–but they’ve never been as intense as they are today. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to preserve the statues, legal battles to remove them, and rowdy crowds taking matters into their own hands. More than 200 members of the Black community perished in this fire in April 1940 and it is still the fourth deadliest club fire in the history of the United States.When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Her next project will examine the Rhythm Club fire in Natchez, Mississippi. She has been interviewed by journalists from around the world for her expertise on Confederate monuments and Confederate culture more broadly.
A public intellectual, she has written op-eds for the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time, CNN, Smithsonian Magazine, Publishers Weekly, and the Huffington Post.
She is also the editor of Destination Dixie: Tourism and Southern History (2012). She is the author of Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture (2003), which won the Southern Association for Women Historians' Julia Cherry Spruill Prize, Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture (2011), Goat Castle: A True Story of Murder, Race, and the Gothic South (2017), and most recently, No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice (2021). Cox is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte where she teaches courses in American history with a focus on southern history and culture.
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