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Blight opens this chapter with the discussion of Saint-Gaudens's Shaw memorial. We've discussed in class how moving this memorial is, but do you think there would have been a different response if it hadn't be revealed when it had (1897)? This was in the middle of the peak of lynching, could that have added significance to it? What if it had been revealed 20 years later, when race relations seems to have been a taboo subject? How did the timing influence the reaction? - Victoria Y. | Blight opens this chapter with the discussion of Saint-Gaudens's Shaw memorial. We've discussed in class how moving this memorial is, but do you think there would have been a different response if it hadn't be revealed when it had (1897)? This was in the middle of the peak of lynching, could that have added significance to it? What if it had been revealed 20 years later, when race relations seems to have been a taboo subject? How did the timing influence the reaction? - Victoria Y. | ||
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| + | In Fahs and Waugh's piece it mentions how Jefferson Davis did not show support for any of the candidates in the 1896 election. What might've happened if he had voiced his opinions about the candidates?- Megan Mc. | ||
