central to this was the mammy, which resembled harriet beecher stowe's aunt chloe. tony horwitz, one contemporary newspaper suggested the statute of instead of having a mammy, it should be replaced by a white daddy, who could be sexually assaulting a black woman as mammy looks helplessly on. plans for the actual monument sparked outrage. blacks not only culminated, but they organize petitions and letters to politicians. the letter was presented to calvin coolidge. what name can we give mammy and her anonymous sisters in this new era of historical revisionism? we are not post-racial, but we are more in tune with color and status, more attuned to seeing multiple layers of meaning. we could remember a six-year-old girl named melvina, who was bequeathed of her owner. when the owner's wife died in 1852, melvina went to live with ruth's daughter, living in rural georgia. she was illiterate. like most women of her generation, she struggled during reconstruction, against incredible odds. in 1870, she appears with four children. she is working as a maid, a watch or woman, a