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Author O'Neill, Connor Towne, 1989- author.

Title Down along with that devil's bones : a reckoning with monuments, memory, and the legacy of white supremacy / Connor Towne O'Neill.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, [2020]

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  322.42 O'NEILL    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  322.4209 O'NEILL    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  322.4209 O'NEILL    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  322.42 O'NE    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  322.4 ONE    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  322.4209 O'NEILL    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  322.4209 O'Neill    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  322.4209 O'NEILL    Check Shelf
 Marlborough, Richmond Memorial Library - Adult Department  322.42 O'NEILL    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - NEW Adult Nonfiction  322.42 ONE    Missing

Edition First edition.
Description 262 pages : 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical resources (pages [255]-262).
Contents Prologue -- Forrest lost and found: Selma. A pronouncement of war ; The First Battle of Selma ; Monument is now headless ; Deo vindice ; From Civil War to Civil Rights -- Forrest in the age of Confederate reproduction: Murfreesboro. Laying Forrest low ; We have a choice ; The marshmallow wonderland of the past ; Palliatives ; A letter to the editor ; The way of Forrest ; More Gump than Bedford ; A flag in war -- This is us: Nashville. At the foot of the ugliest Confederate memorial ; Same as it ever was ; The resistance ; This is us -- Down along with that devil's bones: Memphis. A symbol of everything we are fighting every day ; The dead bury their dead ; The dead bury their dead again ; The mountaintop ; A preponderance of goodwill ; Remember Fort Pillow ; The weight ; "Yeah but..." ; Re-membering -- Epilogue: The two-face god: Montgomery.
Summary "A journalist's memoir-plus-reporting about modern-day conflicts over Southern monuments to Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate hero and original leader of the Ku Klux Klan, as well as a personal examination of the legacy of white supremacy through the US today, tracing the throughline from Appomattox to Charlottesville"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Forrest, Nathan Bedford, 1821-1877.
Ku Klux Klan (19th century)
Generals -- Confederate States of America -- Biography.
White supremacy movements -- Southern States -- History.
Soldiers' monuments -- Southern States.
Forrest, Nathan Bedford, 1821-1877. (OCoLC)fst00049990
Ku Klux Klan (19th century) (OCoLC)fst01801131
Generals. (OCoLC)fst00939841
Soldiers' monuments. (OCoLC)fst01125348
White supremacy movements. (OCoLC)fst01174715
Southern States. (OCoLC)fst01244550
United States -- Confederate States of America. (OCoLC)fst01205435
Genre/Form Biography.
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Biographies.
ISBN 9781616209100 (hardcover)
1616209100 (hardcover)
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