Magnolia tree in memory of Robert E. Lee
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Lee, Robert E.
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Magnolia tree in memory of Robert E. Lee
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The Columbia, SC, chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy planted a young magnolia tree in memory of Confederate General Robert E. Lee (1807-1870) on May 27, 1954, ten days after the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision. The tree and its granite marker are in front of the McKissick Museum building, located on the Historic Horseshoe, the original campus.
Robert E. Lee was the leading general for the Confederacy. He owned slaves and defended slavery before and after the Civil War. In 1868 he wrote, “you can never prosper with the blacks…our material, social, and political interests are naturally with the whites.” Lee became a prominent hero of the Confederate Lost Cause propaganda promoted by the United Daughters of the Confederacy and other memorial groups. He has no major connection to the university.
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Large magnolia tree and granite marker
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Gen. Robert E. Lee
Memorial Tree
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Columbia Chapter U.D.C
May 1954
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United Daughters of the Confederacy, Columbia Chapter
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27 May 1954
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United Daughters of the Confederacy, Columbia Chapter
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