NAACP president says NC leaders fostering hate

AUGUST 6, 2015
BY MARK SCHULTZ

... Barber, historian Tim Tyson and others told about 200 people that Confederate monuments were not really about the Civil War.

Instead, most of the 100 or so monuments in the state were erected a half century afterward and reflected a resurgent white supremacist movement that had regained power in the South.

At the 1913 dedication of Silent Sam, UNC’s monument to Confederate soldiers, for example, industrialist Julian S. Carr bragged in his speech that he had “horse whipped a Negro wench until her skirt hung in shreds because she had publicly insulted a Southern lady,” Tyson said.

Thursday’s rally marked the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Speakers criticized state legislation that shortened the early-voting period and made other changes they said will make it harder for people to vote ...

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