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“A Street of Divided Passions,” The Washington Post, July 27, 1990, http://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1990/07/27/a-street-of-divided-passions/fbd49979-0e58-4b15-92b3-611328c2560e/
This article is one example of extensive news coverage the Ashe monument received in the 90s.
Arthur Ashe and Arnold Rampersad. Days of Grace. (United States: First Ballantine Books Edition, June 1994).
“Biography,” Arthur Ashe: The Official Website of Arthur Ashe, July 28, 2015, http://www.cmgww.com/sports/ashe/about/bio.htm.
This website the official Arthur Ashe website; it is student-friendly and outlines significant events in Ashe’s life.
Chris W. Post, “Art, Scale, and the Memory of Tragedy: A Consideration of Public Art in Pleasant Hill, Missouri,” Material Culture 43, 2 (Fall 2011): under “Art as Memorial,” May 07, 2015. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23145841.
This article discusses another instance of memorializing the past. Part of the New Deal,
“Civil War,” Virginia Historical Society, July 30, 2015. http://www.vahistorical.org/what-you-can-see/story-virginia/explore-story-virginia/1861-1900/civil-war
Daniel Duke, The School that Refused to Die (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1995).
This book tells the story of Thomas Jefferson High School’s journey from an elite, all white public school to one grappling with white flight and new challenges brought from desegregation, busing, and urbanization.
Gaines M. Foster, Ghosts of the Confederacy: Defeat, the Lost Cause, and the Emergence of the New South, 1865-1913 (New York: Oxford University Press, April 23, 197), 85. Gordon Hickey. “Statue’s Path Wasn’t Smooth: Debates Focused on Symbolism, Heroes, Justice, Site, Sculptor,” Richmond Times Dispatch, July 8, 1996.
J.A. Cowardin, “Richmond Dispatch,” The Daily Dispatch, March 30, 1865, 1, http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84024738/1865-03-30/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=1864&sort=date&date2=1867&words=Confederacy+evacuation+fire+Fire+fired+fires&sequence=1&lccn=&index=5&state=Virginia&rows=20&ortext=Confederacy%2C++fire%2C++evacuation&proxtext=&year=&phrasetext=&andtext=&proxValue=&dateFilterType=range&page=21.
This article from 1865 Richmond provides a sense of the times leading up to the fall of the Confederacy’s capital.
Jamelle Bouie. “Happy Robert E. LeeDay!,” Slate, January 19, 2015, http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/01/robert_e_lee_day_some_southern_states_still_celebrate_the_confederate_general.html.
Bouie discusses the idiocy of cities attempting commemorate Civil War heroes alongside Civil Rights heroes.
Katherine Calos, “Civil War 150th: Richmond bread riots were biggest civil uprising in the
Confederacy,” Richmond Times Dispatch, March 31, 2013, http://www.richmond.com/news/special-report/the-civil-war/article_faa79410-99a9-11e2-04-001a4bcf6878.html.
Calos illustrates Richmond’s bleak setting during the Civil War through discussing marches on the capitol, riots, and depleted recourses.
Kirk Savage. Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth Century America. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997.)148.
Marita Surken Tangled Memories: The Vietnam War, the AIDS Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering (Berkeley: University of California Press. 1997).
Matthew M. Barbee, Race and Masculinity in Southern Memory (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2014) .
Mike Allen, “Mayor Offers a Compromise: Ashe at Bryd Park, Monument Memorial,” Richmond Times Dispatch, July 17, 1995.
“On the Lee Monument,” The Times, March 12, 1890
Peter Baker, “Richmond to Honor Ashe Alongside Rebel Heroes,” The Washington Post, July 18. 1995, http://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1995/07/18/richmond-to-honor-ashe-alongside-rebel-heroes/6047f7da-13f9-45db-8149-bae6557fab9e/.
Richard Steins, Arthur Ashe, (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005).
Robert Hodder, “Redefining a Southern City’s Heritage: Historic Preservation Planning, Public Art, and Race in Richmond, Virginia,” Journal of Urban Affairs 21, no. 4 (1999): under “Blockbusting and Public Art,” July 8, 2015.
http://www.americansforthearts.org/sites/default/files/redefining%20a%20souther%20citys%20heritage_0.pdf.
Steven J. Hoffman, Race, Class and Power in the Building of Richmond, 1870-1920. (Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, Inc., Publishers, 2004).
“Stonewall Jackson.” The Weston Democrat. November 08, 1875.
“The Lee Monument Unveiling.” Richmond Planet. May 31, 1890.
“The Fall of Richmond, Va,” Civil War Trust, July 30, 2015. http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/warfare-and-logistics/warfare/richmond.html?referrer=https://www.google.com
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