Honors Theses
Date of Award
Spring 4-19-2021
Document Type
Undergraduate Thesis
Department
Journalism
First Advisor
Cynthia Joyce
Second Advisor
Alysia Steele
Third Advisor
Marquita Smith
Relational Format
Dissertation/Thesis
Abstract
This thesis tells the story of how thousands of students, faculty, staff, alumni and other members of the university community banded together to relocate The University of Mississippi’s Confederate monument. The movement for relocation officially began in the spring of 2019 with the unanimous vote by the Associated Student Body Senate to move the monument to UM’s Confederate cemetery, but long before that, change happened at the university that paved the way.
This creative telling of recent history explains how national and local events — including pro-Confederate marches in Oxford and the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis — brought the university to move its Confederate monument from a prominent place in the heart of campus to the more appropriate Confederate cemetery on the outskirts of university property.
I spoke with over 100 members of the university community from November 2018 to the present while reporting on the monument for The Daily Mississippian, UM’s independent student newspaper. Thousands of people read those articles as they were published, and this narrative collectively addresses the community reaction as events unfolded.
Recommended Citation
Hitson, Hadley, "Moving the Monument: The University of Mississippi’s Decades-Long Journey to Relocate Its Confederate Monument" (2021). Honors Theses. 1794.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/hon_thesis/1794
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