Massachusetts' Confederate memorial under wraps, awaiting fate

[struggle4progress]

Relocation likely
BY TOM ACITELLI
AUG 15, 2017, 6:34AM EDT

Massachusetts’ only Confederate memorial — a modest marker on Boston Harbor’s Georges Island that commemorates rebels imprisoned there during the Civil War — remains covered as the state mulls its fate ...

The stone, which calls the Civil War “the War Between the States,” went up only in 1963 — nearly a century after the Confederacy’s surrender and only through the efforts of the United Daughters of the Confederacy ...

https://boston.curbed.com/2017/8/15/16147596/massachusetts-confederate-memorial

[bullwinkle428]

1. Went up in 1963? Does anyone need any further proof that these

statues were erected as a "whitelash" to the rising civil rights movement of that particular era?

[dalton99a]

2. Bingo.