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there were competing rallies in richmond, virginia this weekend over plans to remove a statue of the confederal general, robert e. lee. are monuments to the confederacy a proud part of southern history or a reminder of a racist past. mo rocca looked at both side of the question for sunday morning. >> general thomas stonewall jackson, was one of the best known commanders of the confederate army. and a virginian. so it is not a big surprise that he is memorialized here in this stained glass window at roanoke's fifth avenue presbyterian church. that is until you meet its congregation.
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>> good morning, fifth avenue. >> good morning. >> the stonewall jackson window has been part of this black church for 125 years. surviving a fire in 1959, that destroyed the rest of the church. >> this was a monument to the future of the african-american race. >> but third generation member, joyce bolden says the window is not about general jackson, but jackson the man. who before the war, led a bible study for his slaves. including the parents of an early pastor. >> i believe it is being memorialized for what, for what stonewall jackson was as a human being and a man of christ of faith. he defied all of the laws of, of the south, by educating his slaves, he taught them to read and write. >> the man fought for slavery. that is the man. can we separate the man from his
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>> current pastor verny boldin isn't so sure. he joined us with church elder, ray williams. >> if stonewall jackson were right here. what would you say to him? >> you picked the wrong side of history, man. >> i would thank him for educating his slaves. >> i think that's very important. >> yeah. >> so, it's, it's complicated. >> the conversation over the window continues, but across the country a legion of confederate monuments has fallen. some after the 2015 charleston massacre of nine black church-goers by a white supremacist. then, many more came down after white supremacists used the pro posed removal of a robert e. lee statue in charlottesville, virginia, as pretext for a rally last month that shocked the nation. >> we're having once again, for whatever it is, the 17th time, a major racial reckoning in
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and we don't know exactly where this one is going. >> according to yale university civil war historian, david blight, most early confederate monuments were part of an effort to recast the secessionist cause as a noble one and to re-establish white dominance over freed blacks. the first major monument was to stonewall jackson. unveiled in richmond, virginia, in 175. >> it was a big coming out. the first time confederate flags were used on any scale. blacks were only allowed to participate in this at the very back of line.
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clear. >> were's back in the union, white virginians were saying. we are lil' again and patriotic to the united states, but we are going to show you who our heroes are. >> even so, blight doesn't support the wholesale removal of confederate monuments. i want to make it clear. i am for removal of some confederate monuments. there 'tis, it's the time has come. not all of them. not every single one of them. certainly not in cemeteries. i just want the process to be historical, delibrative, and based on research. including the people who lived there. >> yes, if all politics is local. all memory is also local. a memorial landscape turned minefield is familiar terrain for david blight and yale university. >> was there resistance to changing the name? >> yes, there was resistance to
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>> earlier this year the university renamed a dormitory, dedicated to former vice president john c.calhoon citing his primary legacy as one of 19th century's most ardent defenders of slavery. determining a historical figure's primary legacy is where things get trekkie. i'm sure you have heard this, but this university has a very conspicuous connection to someone who made a lot of money trading slaves. and his name is -- elihu yale. i can assure you as, previous dean said, the name yale its not on the table. >> yes, yale its named for elihu yale, a slave trader. where to draw the line? after all, ten of our first 12 presidents were slave owners.
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some warn against drawing lines at all. >> we need to remember this nation exists by the blood and the sacrifice and the courage of many, many men. many got it correctly. many misguided. >> virginia tech history professor emrelt us, james robinson isn't new to the debate. in 1961, president kennedy tapped robertson to lead the civil war centennial commission. we need to learn from the mistakes others made just as well as we need to be inspired by the good things that good people half done. >> robertson believes there was a lot of good in confederate general robert e. lee. >> people foregoat that after the civil war, lee be game the greatest voice for reconciliation in this country. he preached peace and harmony. robinson joined us on richmond's monument avenue, a grand boulevard in the once confederate capital designed to
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pay tribute to the rebel leaders. >> this looks pretty clearly like he is being honored for his military service. not, not as a peacemaker. >> certainly does. my regret, lee is not in civilian clothing which he would have been in his last five years. half a mile from lee its the jefferson davis monument. a tribute as much to the secessionist government it seems, as it is to the former confederate president. >> so, davis lead the south into a -- into a war for its independence. very much aware that he was fighting to keep slavery legal. so if one has to go. this is probably the one to go. >> if we look down, and we see stone wall jackson, way in the distance. we see all of the green space. if all that green space one solution. >> absolutely. there is plenty of room for monuments. commemorating, har. iet tubman. fred wreck douglas. simply adding statues of
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solution says brian stevenson. he still remembers what it felt like seeing confederate monuments as a kid. >> i always thought the despite the fact that they were copper or bronze, they were screaming at me. i don't belong here. this is not your land. you are still subordinate. >> stevenson, founder of the equal justice initiative in montgomery, alabama is turning a light on one of america's darkest post civil war chapters. the nearly 4,000 documented lynchings that happened in the old south, between 1877 and 1950. >> we are looking at -- jars unfortunate soil that have been collected from the sites of lynchings that took place in the state of alabama. >> 363 in alabama alone. >> there is even photography. where you will see, thousand of people, gathered in the space
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while some one is being hanged. people would come to these lynchings. and they would drink lemonade and whiskey. >> and now, these jars, will be part of a museum that stevenson is opening along with a national memorial to victims of lynching, next year in montgomery. he is not worried if it makes some people uncomfortable. >> i do think that we need to increase the shame quotient in america. i don't think shame its a bad thing. i think it actually moves you and pushes you to think differently about things. >> and, i don't frankly think, we have expressed our shame. about slavery. i want to us talk about what it moons to honor some one who did something dishonorable. >> which brings us back to roanoke anth
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jackson window that survived that fire so many years ago. joyce boldin doesn't expect others to see it as she does. >> when i die off, and there is no memory of the origins of this window, it probably will be removed. >> until that day, she sees the window, not as a tribute to the confederacy, but as an unlikely connection to her own history. >> when i see this window, i see the past of the original church. i see it every time i walk in. because i grew up arun that window. nobody else might not see that. because the they didn't grow of in the same church i grew up in. >> for her, it's complicated.
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much of the texas gulf coast has dried out. but of the final numbers are sobering. 70 people killed. 250,000 homes damaged or destroyed. now the region is dealing with a problem. mosquitoes. >> harris county bug experts are on a seek and destroy mission. the mosquito population is expected to explode after hurricane harvey left behind water. the director of mosquito control
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for harris county says these are the perfect breeding conditions. >> how many mosquitos could the two tires breed? >> oh, over 500 to 600, you know. 700, you know, because a mosquito will lay a lot of eggs. >> to combat the threat of diseases like west nile and zik an all out assault has been launched. on the ground. harris county trucks have sprayed more than 70,000 acres. and for the past several nights, air force reserves, c-130 planes have flown over southeast texas. spraying an epa approved mosquito killing chemical. the aerial bombardments have treated 2 million acres of harris and counties. that's more than ten times the size of new york city. but county officials say, they can only do so much. and need the help of residents. home owners have hired personal mosquito squads like cory barkham who says he has been going nonstop. >> it was price before the storm. now phone calls are, you know when can you got to us. can you do it tomorrow? do it today?
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captioning funded by cbs it's monday, september 18th, 2017. this is the "cbs morning news." world leaders are gathered in new york for the united nations general assembly, and all eyes are on president trump. tracking hurricane maria, a new storm is churning in the atlantic and picking up strength as it heads toward the kar be caribbean. and the emmy goes to julia louis-dreyfus. >> she makes emmy history and sean spicer crashes the award show.
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