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And just as they built monuments to generals and named schools after secessionists, they also built a history—one where Black agency was minimized, and where white loss was sacralized. Decoration Day was theirs, they insisted—not born of Black mourning, but of white grief.
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Image: The Lanier of Glynn Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, pictured in 1979, decorate a monument in Brantley County dedicated to Confederate soldiers who died of yellow fever during the Civil War.
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