Monuments, Memory, White Supremacy Book Talk
Channel: Albert Gore Research Center
Date: 2020-12-21

Annotated transcript of this talk can be found at : https://www.mtsu.edu/gorecenter/docs/BookTalkAnnotatedTranscript.pdf

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A Zoom recording. 

Author Connor Towne O'Neill will discuss his new book, Down Along with That Devil's Bones: A Reckoning with Monuments, Memory, and the Legacy of White Supremacy (Algonquin, 2020). Through the lens of conflicts over Nathan Bedford Forrest monuments at Middle Tennessee State University, and in Selma, Nashville, and Memphis, O'Neill examines the legacy of white supremacy in America. Mr. O'Neill's writing has appeared in New York magazine, Vulture, Slate, RBMA, and the Village Voice. He teaches at Auburn University. 

Joining Mr. O'Neill in discussion will be Joshua Crutchfield, who participated in the Forrest Hall protests recounted in Mr. O'Neill's book when he was earning his MA in History at MTSU, and Sarah Calise, Albert Gore Research Center archivist, who has published on the protests and with, University Archivist Donna Baker, developed the Forrest Hall Protest Collection, an extensive archive of primary sources documenting the use of Confederate symbols on the MTSU campus, and the history of protest against those symbols.