Mystery Solved: Statue of Racist Mississippi Ex-Gov. Bilbo Stashed in Closet
Decades after the Civil War ended, Confederate monuments began to be erected in the South - in part as a response to a Northern movement to honor its own soldiers with statues. Mark Elliott, a history professor from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, joined LX News to delve into the history of the Confederate statues and why some Southerners defend their existence.
The Mississippi Legislative Black Caucus often meets in the room where the Bilbo statue was last on display, and Black lawmakers in the past have asked for the statue to be moved. The figure is approximately life-sized, at 5 feet, 2 inches . People sometimes hung their coats or purses on its outstretched arm.
Statues of Confederate soldiers and generals have been removed from public display in several places across the South in recent years amid debates about how the U.S. should acknowledge troubling parts of its history.
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