It's not about statues, but the Wikipedia article about the modern display of the Confederate Flag seems to offer a decent summary of its usage beginning in the

It's not about statues, but the Wikipedia article about the modern display of the Confederate Flag seems to offer a decent summary of its usage beginning in the 1950s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_display_of_the_Confederate_battle_flag https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_display_of_the_Confeder...