The Starkweather Chapel in Ypsilanti’s Highland Cemetery, for those of you who may not have noticed, has been undergoing some much needed renovation work this past year. Here, with more on the history of the building, and the preservation work that’s been done thus far, is a conversation I just had with lifelong Ypsilanti resident […]
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Is it possible that our local white supremacists don’t realize that not all Civil War memorials celebrate the Confederacy?
Earlier today, the following social media post was forwarded to a reader of this site, who, in turn, shared it with me. It apparently shows white supremacist literature at the base of Ypsilanti’s Civil War memorial in Highland Cemetery. At the bottom of the above image, you’ll notice one of the comments that was left […]
Posted in History, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged Abolitionism, Civil War, Confederacy, fruitless racism, Grand Army of the Republic, Helen McAndrew, John Brown, Matt Siegfried, monuments, racism, Robert E. Lee, slavery, white supremacist 11 Comments