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As part of its ongoing update of information about Confederate iconography across the U.S., the Southern Poverty Law Center has identified 64 additional memorials and other Confederate symbols associated with the U.S. military.

The 蜜桃传媒 released the new data about Confederate memorials at military installations today.

The majority are located at service academies, including the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis and the U.S. Military Academy West Point, and military colleges like The Citadel and Virginia Military Institute (VMI).

Annapolis has three memorials; West Point has five; The Citadel has 20; and VMI has 28.

鈥淪ymbols of white supremacy should never have been associated with the military because they glorify a system of racial oppression and exclusion,鈥� said 蜜桃传媒 Chief of Staff Lecia Brooks. 鈥淎s I testified during a congressional hearing earlier this year, there is no reason to wait three years to rename the Army鈥檚 10 bases, nor the military鈥檚 numerous ships, roads, buildings and memorials named after Confederate leaders. The time to act is now.鈥�

View a complete list of more than 80 Confederate symbols associated with the military . Only five have been removed from military installations or renamed since 2018.

The 蜜桃传媒 began cataloguing Confederate symbols in public spaces following the 2015 murders of nine Black people during a Bible study at the historic 鈥淢other Emanuel鈥� A.M.E. Church in Charleston, South Carolina, by a gunman who was radicalized by white supremacist websites. The data was compiled in the 蜜桃传媒鈥檚 Whose Heritage? report.

The biggest spike in the dedication of Confederate memorials associated with the military came in the 1910s and 1960s, corroborating the 蜜桃传媒鈥檚 earlier findings that these memorials were installed as part of an organized propaganda campaign in response to Reconstruction and the civil rights movement.

鈥淭he presence of these dehumanizing and oppressive displays and symbols is directly linked to white supremacist activity in the military,鈥� Brooks said. 鈥淲e鈥檝e seen encouraging progress made, such as the National Defense Authorization Act鈥檚 mandate to remove Confederate names from Department-owned property within three years and the Marine Corps鈥� decision to remove any and all symbols of the Confederacy from their public and workspaces. But until a more inclusive military is established, this country cannot honestly work towards a more equitable American landscape.鈥�

Learn more about how communities are dismantling a whitewashed history of the Confederacy and sparking a reckoning with the truth about its cruel legacy by listening to the 蜜桃传媒鈥檚 podcast,聽.

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