A striking graphic from the Southern Poverty Law Center revealed that the majority of Confederate monuments weren't erected until after 1900 — decades after the Civil War ended in 1865. Notably, the construction of Confederate monuments peaked in the 1910s and 1920s, when states were enacting Jim Crow laws, and later in the 1950s and 1960s, amid the Civil Rights Movement:
Washington Post - In the Capitol's National Statuary Hall Collection there are three times as many statues of Confederate soldiers and politicians as there are statues of black people in the entire Capitol complex, according to records maintained by the Architect of the Capitol.
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There was no meaningful civil rights law from 1883 to 1964. What is new today is the tracking from family genealogies of persons who disappeared during the Jim Crow terror. It's not the enshrinement of the terrorists in the halls of power but the absence from the family tree of those who were enslaved in forced labor and never heard from again. See "I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang" about the disappeared or "Sullivan's Travels". Their neoslave labor and concentration camps rebuilt America.
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