So Many Layers

Few if any other Confederate memorials stand out like Stone Mountain, Georgia. The modern Ku Klux Klan was founded there in 1915. In the 1920s, under the auspices of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, an enormous sculpture of Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, and Stonewall Jackson was carved into the rock face of the mountain by Gutzon Borglum before he began Mount Rushmore. Now the president of the Atlanta chapter of the NAACP says the sculpture should be “sandblasted” off the face of the mountain.