Part of the commemoration of the American Civil War, these symbols include monuments and statues, flags, holidays and other observances, and the names of schools, roads, parks, bridges, counties, cities, lakes, dams, military bases, and other public works.
Nor does it include figures connected with the origins of the Civil War or white supremacy, but not with the Confederacy.
[9] The Stone Mountain Park officially opened on April 14, 1965 – 100 years to the day after Lincoln's assassination.
[10] Site of the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan (the Second Clan), on the top of the mountain, with cross burning, in 1915.
Stone Mountain was the location of an annual Labor Day cross-burning ceremony for the next 50 years.