Anti-Civil Rights


A memorial dedicated to a person who actively resisted the campaign for Civil Rights and/or urged others to do so in the period after 1945. An anti-Civil Rights memorial also may refer to events or actions resisting the campaign for Civil Rights.

Anti-Lost Cause


A memorial dedicated to a person who actively opposed persons, practices, or commemorative monuments or events celebrating the Confederacy, its military, or the antebellum southern social order in ways that excused or justified slavery and/or secession.

Emancipationist


A memorial dedicated to a person or persons who symbolized or themselves supported the abolition of slavery and racial justice in the pre-Civil War period to 1940. An emancipationist memorial may also represent an event or series of events associated with opposition to or abolition of slavery and/or racial injustice during this period.

Enslaver


A memorial dedicated to someone known to have enslaved or profited and/or directly benefitted from enslaved people.

Jim Crow


A memorial dedicated to a person or persons whose activities supported racial injustice in the era after emancipation and/or who profited from systems of discrimination against African Americans.